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Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

By Henry David Thoreau

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In Walden, Henry David Thoreau reflects on the time he spent living near Walden Pond. Accounts of work, reading, changing seasons and encounters with nature become questions about what a person needs and how a life is spent. This EPUB also contains On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.

For readers who enjoy reflective nonfiction and want to question familiar habits of work, consumption and attention without treating the book as a modern instruction manual.

Our reading: give sustained attention to the books and experiences you choose.

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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Thoreau's first-person essay voice in the chapter Reading.

Walden — Reading

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English text, including Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Project Gutenberg digital edition no. 205.

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