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This carefully crafted ebook: "Walden + Civil Disobedience + Slavery in Massachusetts" contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Walden is a book written by Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.
Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.
Slavery in Massachusetts" is an 1854 essay based on a speech he gave at an anti-slavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1854, after the re-enslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, historian and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

Walden + Civil Disobedience + Slavery in Massachusetts

La Natura non si affretta mai; i suoi sistemi procedono ad un ritmo regolare. Il bocciolo cresce impercettibilmente, senza fretta né confusione, come se pochi giorni di primavera durassero in eterno. Tutte le sue operazioni prese singolarmente sembrano essere, per quanto riguarda il tempo, il singolo oggetto per il quale tutto indugia. Ma perché allora l'uomo dovrebbe sbrigarsi come se qualcosa, a parte l'eternità, fosse destinato all'ultima azione? Egli non dovrebbe consumare tanti secoli, così da potersi dedicare per bene al minimo compito, anche fosse soltanto tagliarsi le unghie. Se il sole che tramonta sembra farlo affrettare per sfruttare al meglio il giorno mentre finisce, il canto dei grilli non manca di rassicurarlo, regolare come era in principio, insegnandogli a prendersi il suo tempo, d'ora in avanti. L'uomo saggio è tranquillo, mai impaziente o irrequieto. In ogni istante rimane lì dov'è, come alcuni che, camminando, riposano l'intero corpo ad ogni passo, mentre altri, dato che non rilassano mai i muscoli della gamba, sono costretti a fermarsi dalla fatica accumulata. Così, il saggio non è impaziente che il tempo lo aspetti, né è lui ad aspettarlo.

Henry David Thoreau DIARI 1837-1847

Le présent volume regroupe la totalité des essais écrits durant toute sa vie par Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), l'auteur de Walden et de La Désobéissance civile.
Au total, près de quarante textes, dont dix sont traduits et présentés pour la première en français. Du premier rédigé à vingt ans jusqu'au dernier, révisé sur son lit de mort, toutes les thématiques chères à Thoreau s'y retrouvent. Leur ordonnancement chronologique permet de suivre le fil de sa pensée, son évolution, ses bifurcations, et ses engagements. À côté de ses essais célébrant différents aspects de cette Nature qu'il n'a cessé d'arpenter, on trouve des textes qui sont de véritables bréviaires de sa philosophie vécue sans concession, et des brûlots politiques qui, bien qu'inscrits dans un contexte historique particulier, n'en continuent pas moins de résonner jusqu'à nous. Car c'est le propre de Thoreau de transcender ce qu'il vit à un instant pour lui donner une dimension plus ample qui trouve des échos avec nos propres interrogations. Ce que dénonce ou célèbre Thoreau nous parle plus que jamais : le temps pour soi, la simplicité volontaire, l'attention à la nature, l'hégémonie de la valeur travail, la soumission à l'argent, la désobéissance civile, le recours à la violence pour une cause que l'on croit juste...
À côté des deux seuls livres qu'il a publiés de son vivant et de son immense journal, ces essais constituent l'autre chef-d'oeuvre de Henry David Thoreau, son indispensable complément, son précieux prolongement, qui fait de son auteur notre contemporain.

Un monde plus large

This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry D. Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized. William Rossi's introduction puts the essays in the content of Thoreau's other major works, both chronologically and intellectually. Rossi also shows how three writings relate to Thoreau's life and career as both writer and naturalist: his readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Darwin; his failed bid for commercial acceptance of his work; and his pivotal encounter with the utter wildness of the Maine woods. In the essays themselves, readers will see how Thoreau melded conventions of natural history writing with elements of two popular literary forms-travel writing and landscape writing-to explore concerns ranging from America's westward expansion to the figural dimensions of scientific facts and phenomena. Thoreau the thinker, observer, wanderer, and inquiring naturalist-all emerge in this distinctive composite picture of the economic, natural, and spiritual communities that left their marks on one of our most important early environmentalists.

Wild apples and other natural history essays

Walden is a book by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. 

The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and - to some degree - a manual for self-reliance.

(from wikipedia.org)

Walden

Au travers de scènes de la vie quotidienne, inspirées de sa propre expérience, Henry D. Thoreau nous propose de passer au crible, ses préceptes o-pour une vie vertueuse. Il aborde avec philosophie les grands thèmes qui lui sont chers ; le travail, la liberté, la politique, la morale.

La vie sans principes

On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year experiment living in a solitary, self-built hut on the edge of Walden Pond outside of Concord, Massachusetts. In Walden, Thoreau wrote, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Walden is a detailed account of how and why Thoreau lived in relative seclusion, and his conclusions about living deliberately, and human nature. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

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