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.