Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By Henry David Thoreau

This edition brings together Henry David Thoreau's Walden and his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. In Walden, Thoreau describes the two years and two months he lived alone in the woods, a mile from any neighbour, in a house he built himself on the shore of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, earning his living by the labour of his hands only. Through chapters such as Economy, Where I Lived and What I Lived For, Reading, Solitude, The Bean-Field, The Ponds, Higher Laws and Spring, he reflects on simple living, nature and self-reliance. The volume closes with On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.