
by Henry David Thoreau · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140390445

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«Walden and Civil Disobedience» is Henry David Thoreau's volume of essays, published by Penguin in paperback (336 pages, in English).
In Walden, Thoreau recounts his retreat to a cabin by Walden Pond to live simply and self-sufficiently, in contact with nature. In Civil Disobedience, Thoreau argues that individual conscience must take precedence over an unjust government; the essay inspired movements of nonviolent resistance.
This edition, published in 1983, is the first Penguin Classics edition and includes an introduction by Michael Meyer.
For readers interested in transcendentalist philosophy, essays, and social criticism, as well as the origins of nonviolent resistance.

Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state.
