452 títulos para "Henry David"

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

El libro más conocido de Thoreau, Walden, nació de los dos años vividos por el autor entre el 4 de julio de 1845 y el 6 de septiembre de 1847 en la cabaña, construida por él mismo, a la orilla del lago Walden. Anecdótico de estos años es el episodio del

Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Henry David Thoreaus 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 d...

Walden

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

"This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself."Thoreau lived in his Walden camp but two years, 1845-1847, and, as his narrative clearly shows, by no means exiled himself from h...

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Thoreau, Henry David

Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 Walden is an indisputable masterpiece of American literature. The book is an intensely influential philosophical work exploring Thoreau’s decision to expand his understanding of society through personal introspection from a small cabin at the edge of Concord Ma...

Walden

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Published in the mid-19th century, Walden chronicles Henry David Thoreaus lif...

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Thoreau, Henry David

Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau’s popular essays included here: Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown, Walking, and Life without Principle. Cited by both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Lut...

Desobediencia civil

Henry David Thoreau

Desobediencia civil es un ensayo que se dictó como conferencia en 1848 con el nombre Los derechos y obligaciones del individuo con el Gobierno. Este bosquejaba el pensamiento de Thoreau respecto a la relación que debería tener el individuo con el Estado. Este vínculo no era, por supuesto, ni la sumi...

A desobediência civil (edição de bolso)

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Civil Disobedience

Thoreau, Henry David

Disgusted by slavery and the Mexican War, Thoreau gave lectures on, “The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government,” which became the basis for this 1849 essay Civil Disobedience originally titled, “Resistance to Civil Government.”   Cited by both M...

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Thoreau, Henry David

Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau’s popular essays included here: Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown, Walking, and Life without Principle. Cited by both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Lut...

Walden with On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Readers Library Classics)

Henry David Thoreau

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Published in the mid-19th century, Walden chronicles Henry David Thoreaus lif...

Walking

Thoreau, Henry David

“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic...