Walden / Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau

Category: Adults, Libertarian, Literature, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: American Biography Classics Environment Essays Literature Memoir Nature Nonfiction Philosophy

Written by Henry David Thoreau
Read by Rupert Degas
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Walden / Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Read by Rupert Degas
Audible.com Release Date : September 13th, 2010
Listening Length : 11 Hours and 43 Minutes
M4B, 62kbps, Unabridged

In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the small town of Concord for the country. Beside the lake of Walden he built himself a log cabin and returned to nature, to observe and reflect – while surviving on eight dollars a year.

From this experience emerged Walden, one of the great classics of American literature, and a deeply personal reaction against the commercialism and materialism that Thoreau saw as the main impulses of mid-19th-century America. Here also is Civil Disobedience, Thoreau’s essay on just resistance to government, which not only challenged the establishment of his day but has been used as a flag for later campaigners from Mahatma Ghandi to Dr Martin Luther King.