History, Essays & literary criticism

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

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Thoreau spent two years in a cabin he built by Walden Pond to live “deliberately,ˮ and wrote the book that became a manifesto for simple living. This edition adds Civil Disobedience (1849), the essay on conscience and the state that influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Henry David Thoreau

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Added to BookMarket: October 6, 2026
First published: 1854
Genres: History Essays & literary criticism

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