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Henry David Thoreau: Walden and Civil Disobedience

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations — the illusory nature of much of what we call progress, the proper symbiotic relationship between man and the natural environment, the limitations of government, especially where it seeks to intrude on the personal, the moral and political case for non-violence, the dubious pleasures…

Henry David Thoreau: Walden

Скачать книгу (размер 2 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 426) Аннотация: 'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the…