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Walden & Civil Disobedience The Variorum Editions
Walden Civil Disobedience The Variorum Editions Author:Henry David Thoreau The compelling account of two years spent in the relative seclusion of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, Walen offers insight into the personality and concerns of one of the most misunderstood American men of letters. A moving personal document evincing Thoreau's skills as a writer, naturalist, and philosopher, it records an object le... more »sson for all men concerned with personal integrity and independence from the materialism of the society around them.
One of the most influential of moral treatises, Civil Disobedience has inspired Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and all who oppose oppression and injustice by the strength of individual conscience. A succinct and vibrant call to moral action, it is as important today as it was a century ago.
This edition of The Variorum Walden and The Variorum Civil Disobedience is the only one that includes Thoreau's own notes as well as notes based on all subsequent research and critical commentary.« less