Walden, or Life in the Woods, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau • BookLikes (ISBN:0451509463)

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

by: Henry David Thoreau (author)

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780451509468 (0451509463)

Publish date: July 1st 1942

Publisher: Signet Classics

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Non Fiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, History, Literature, American, Environment, Nature, Politics, Philosophy

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Jocelyn (The Reading World) rated it

9 years ago

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I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVAR understand the association between scribbling in the margins and becoming a more "active" reader. Where is the logic???? As you may have guessed, I read this for school and am referring to the abominable requirement by the vast majority of English c...

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Martha Sweeney rated it

10 years ago

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Needed a break from editing and read Civil Disobedience for the first time. Loved it. It's a key piece of literature that I think everyone should read, not just in America, but all over the world concerning everything that is occurring in governments all across the world.Peace - Love - Prosperity - ...

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sologdin rated it

12 years ago

http://sologdin.booklikes.com sologdin 1.0 Walden, or Life in the Woods, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Signet classics)

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I didn't think there'd be a worse Important Book than Steppenwolf, but sure enough, here it is.Surly primativist lives in woods & muses about beans, ice, animals, and suchlike. There's much consternation regarding the local village, the train, the citylife. Might have more reasonably entitled this...

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Words, Words, Words rated it

13 years ago

http://EricFitz08.booklikes.com Words, Words, Words 4.0 Walden and Civil Disobedience: Or, Life in the Woods (Signet Classics)

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A great manifesto on nature/living/faith/philosophy. At times thoreau approaches the pretentious. Speaking as a male college graduate in his early twenties-as Thoreau was during his time at Walden-I get living the simple life. We've all cut down the luxeries (relatively) living off ramen, strarbucks...

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