Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library)

Thoreau, Henry David; Meyer, Michael [Introduction]

ISBN 10: 0140390448 / ISBN 13: 9780140390445

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1983

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0140390448-4-24521484

Inhaltsangabe:

Disdainful of America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist’s wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist’s yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. But even as Thoreau disentangled himself from worldly matters, his musings were often disturbed by his social conscience. Civil Disobedience, also included in this volume, expresses his antislavery and antiwar sentiments, and has influenced non-violent resistance movements worldwide. Both give a rewarding insight into a free-minded, principled and idiosyncratic man.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist. Although he published only two books in his lifetime, Walden (from which this book is taken) is regarded as a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the 19th century.

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Titel: Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin ...
Verlag: Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Fair