title: Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library)
author:  Henry David Thoreau 
description: <b>Henry David Thoreau&#160;</b>was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime:&#160;<i>Walden</i>&#160;(1854) and&#160;<i>A Week on the Concord</i> and <i>Merrimack Rivers</i>&#160;(1849). Several of his other works, including&#160;<i>The Maine Woods</i>, <i>Cape Cod</i>, and&#160;<i>Excursions</i>, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.<br><br><b>Kristen Case</b> teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she is associate professor of English. She is the author of <i>American Pragmatism and&#160;Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson&#160; to Susan Howe</i> (Camden&#160; House, 2011) and <i>Little Arias</i>,&#160;a collection&#160; of poems (New Issues Press, 2015). She is coeditor of <i>Thoreau at 200: Essays and&#160;Reassessments</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and has published articles on Thoreau, Ezra&#160;Pound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and&#160; William James. She lives inTemple, Maine.
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  Title: Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience  
    
  Author: Henry David Thoreau  
    
  Release Date: January, 1995 [EBook #205]  
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  # WALDEN
  
  
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  ### ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
  
  
  ### by Henry David Thoreau
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
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  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [WALDEN](@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@205@205-h@205-h-0.htm.html#chap01)  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Economy](@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@205@205-h@205-h-0.htm.html#chap