Walden [antikvár]

Note WaldeN; or, Life in the Woods (1854) is a book of many distinctions: within American literature it stands as a defining text, and is perhaps the greatest expression of the spirit of New England Transcendentalism, one of the nation's most fruitful and characteristic intellectual strains; as nature writing, it is one of the world's most revered and imitated masterpieces, and continues to inform debate concerning environmental and conservation issues; and as an expression of'moral idealism, it advocates a standard of existence that has inspired readers of widely varying circumstances (including Tolstoy and Gandhi) to improve their lives. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (0-486-27563-9), a collection of shorter writings by the author of Walden, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), is also available in the Dover Thrift Editions series.