Walden and Other Writings
Thoreau, Henry David / Emerson, Ralph Waldo / Atkinson, Brooks
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. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are "Walden, " his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, "Civil Disobedience" and "Life Without Prin...
