内容简介
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."
作者简介
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, Writer / Peacenik,(born July 12, 1817,
Concord, Mass., U.S.-died May 6, 1862, Concord).
A former schoolteacher, Thoreau spent two years in the 1840s
living in a hut beside Walden Pond in Massachusetts, where he
studied nature and wrote peaceful essays and poems. His journal of
these years became his most famous work: Walden, or a Life in the
Woods (published 1854). Thoreau also wrote Civil Disobedience
(1849), advocating non-violent resistance to unethical governments;
the same notion was later advocated by Gandhi and Martin Luther
King, Jr. Always a hit with college readers, Thoreau became a pop
icon for anti-war and pro-environment groups late in the 20th
century.