Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library)

Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library)

With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature.<br><br>The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are <i>Walden</i>, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, <i>Civil Disobedience</i> and <i>Life Without Principle</i>. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--is recorded in selections from <i>A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods</i> and <i>The Journal</i>.