Walden, or, Life in the Woods / On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

This edition joins two of Thoreau's best-known works: Walden, his account of living simply beside a pond near Concord, Massachusetts, and Civil Disobedience, his short essay on conscience and the state. Together they show two sides of his thought. One celebrates self-reliance, nature and deliberate living, while the other argues that a person must not lend support to injustice. Read side by side, they make a compact introduction to his ideas.