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Walden and Civil Disobedience

Author
Henry David Thoreau
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
10 hours 45 minutes
ISBN
9781802565690
Published
27 April 2025
Imprint
Adelphi Press
  • simplicity
  • nature
  • self-reliance
  • nonviolent resistance
  • individual conscience
  • transcendentalism
  • solitude
  • environmentalism
  • social reform
  • personal freedom

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Walden's experiment in living simply by the pond, paired with Civil Disobedience's call to answer unjust law with conscience. Practical philosophy for freedom of body and mind. Spoken as usable thought when you need both solitude and moral nerve.

Author

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) wrote Walden and the essay on civil disobedience. A pond becomes a republic of attention: beans, ice, visitors, and the cost of a life measured in hours. Concord was the address; the argument was larger. Twelve titles here. He walked, measured, refused a tax, and made refusal sound like a method. The sentences still send people outdoors, and into argument. He is easier to quote than to follow.

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