Henry David Thoreau’s Walden details his experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. ‘Civil Disobedience’ is a highly influential argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Both Walden and ‘Civil Disobedience’ are timeless classics of American literature. This Warbler Classics edition includes an introduction by Charles R. Anderson and a detailed chronology of Thoreau’s life and work.
Daftar Isi
Contents
Introduction
Walden
Economy
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Reading
Sounds
Solitude
Visitors
The Bean-Field
The Village
The Ponds
Baker Farm
Higher Laws
Brute Neighbors
House-Warming
Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
Winter Animals
The Pond in Winter
Spring
Conclusion
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Biographical Timeline
Tentang Penulis
Charles Robert Anderson was a professor of American literature at Johns Hopkins University, a noted literary critic, scholar, and the author of critically acclaimed works on Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry James. He was a trail-blazer in establishing American literature as an independent subject that had its own world-class writers. He died in 1999.
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