Walden: On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

By: Thoreau, Henry David

In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet practical-minded book is at once a record of the 26 months Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society - an account of the daily minutiae of building, planting, hunting, cooking, and, always, observing nature - and a declaration of independence from the oppressive mores of the world he left behind. Elegant, witty, and quietly searching, Walden remains the most persuasive American argument for simplicity of life clarity of conscience.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08J578FGP
• ISBN13: 9798681975519
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Henry, you are so radically disobedient.

(Original Title: Resistance to Civil Government) Now (Civil Disobedience) Occasionally (On the Duty of Civil Disobedience) Before reading his essays, you will want to know that he is one of those American Transcendentalists. I knew that Henry David Thoreau was a tax evader; however, I did not realize how radical he was until I read his book “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”. Sourced from a lecture Thoreau gave in 1848 titled "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government." He starts with "The government is best which governs not at all." This should have tipped me off to what was going to come next. What would Timothy McVeigh think if he had read this (and he might have): "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" Henry David Thoreau's discussion of democracy, whether on the edge of mob rule or just majority rule, might have also outraged some well-known figures. If you cover the title and read the sentences, they could have been inserted into "Mein Kampf" and still fit perfectly. The bottom line in his dissertation is stated: "There will never be a free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly."