Walden

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Walden

and ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE by Henry David Thoreau

WALDEN

and
ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

by Henry David Thoreau


Contents

WALDEN

Economy
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Reading
Sounds
Solitude
Visitors
The Bean-Field
The Village
The Ponds
Baker Farm
Higher Laws
Brute Neighbors
House-Warming
Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
Winter Animals
The Pond in Winter
Spring
Conclusion

ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up."