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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Antiquarius
Published: Nov 2014
Genre: Political Science - Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights
Pages: 272
Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience are two wildly different books Henry David Thoreau wrote around the same time. Walden chronicles Thoreau's decision to isolate himself in a cabin in Walden Pond, Massachusetts. Meanwhile,On the Duty of Civil Disobedienceis a treatise of practical opposition to government tyranny and slavery. Though different, the books are united by the clarity provided by his productive isolation.