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 (July 12, 1817 ¿ May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.