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 Principle.
A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--is recorded in
selections from A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The
Maine Woods and The Journal.
