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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.

Auteur

  • Né à Concord dans le Massachussetts, en 1817, David Henry Thoreau commence son Journal - qu'il tiendra toute sa vie - en 1837 (l'année où il est diplômé de Harvard) et change de nom. Il s'appelle désormais Henry David et fréquente Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Jones Very et Bronson Alcott, les principales figures du mouvement transcendantaliste. Professeur à Concord, il démissionne rapidement car il est opposé aux châtiments corporels.Inspiré par Emerson, il devient l'un des membres influents du cercle transcendantaliste et lutte pour l'abolition de l'esclavage aux Etats-Unis. Entre 1845 et 1847, Thoreau va vivre dans une cabane près de Walden, au bord d'un lac, en lisière des bois. Il en tire un récit, Walden (1854). Pendant ce séjour, Thoreau écrira le deuxième livre publié de son vivant : A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Ses autres oeuvres seront posthumes. Il décède en 1862 à Concord, à l'âge quarante-quatre ans.

Auteur(s) : Henry David Thoreau

Caractéristiques

Editeur : e-artnow

Auteur(s) : Henry David Thoreau

Publication : 15 novembre 2013

Edition : 1ère édition

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub + Mobi/Kindle + WEB]

Contenu(s) : ePub, Mobi/Kindle, WEB

Protection(s) : Aucune (ePub), Aucune (Mobi/Kindle), DRM (WEB)

Taille(s) : 595 ko (ePub), 1,84 Mo (Mobi/Kindle), 1 octet (WEB)

Langue(s) : Anglais

Code(s) CLIL : 3660, 3283

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub + Mobi/Kindle + WEB] : 9788074849800

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