Henry David Thoreau

A Yankee in Canada (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays, published in 1866, features not only Thoreau's whimsical account of his 1850 trip to Canada but one of his most famous and influential essays, "Civil Disobedience," as well as "A Plea for Captain John Brown" and "Slavery in Massachusetts."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411436534
• Artikelnr.: 43810685

Autorenporträt

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American philosopher, naturalist, essayist, and a member of the Transcendatalist school associated with Emerson. He is best known for the collection of essays published under the title Walden (1854), inspired by his solitary sojourn at Walden Pond. His ideas on civil disobedience influenced Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr.