Collected here in this omnibus edition are Henry David Thoreau's
most important works including A Week on the Concord and Merrimack
Rivers; The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau, including Civil
Disobedience; and of course, Walden. A Week on the Concord and
Merrimack Rivers is both a remembrance of an intensely spiritual
moment in Henry David Thoreau's life and a memoriam to his older
brother who accompanied him on the trip shortly before his death.
Full of fascinating literary musings and philosophical
speculations, this book is a true precursor to Walden. The Selected
Essays contains nineteen essays (including Civil Disobedience).
Thoreau was one of America's best known and most influential
writers. His work has helped shape the American Discourse and had a
lasting effect on the environmental movement in America. Walden is
one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an
American. It details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond,
amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Walden was written with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau hoped
to isolate himself from society in order to gain a more objective
understanding of it. Simplicity and self-reliance were Thoreau's
other goals, and the whole project was inspired by
Transcendentalist philosophy. This book is full of fascinating
musings and reflections. As pertinent and relevant today as it was
when it was first written.
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