Walden or, Life in the Woods, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (A Signet Classic)

255 pp. "In March, 1845, he set out to live life in a new way. Borrowing an ax, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September, 1847. Walden is a record of that experiment in simple living. In this fascinating work Thoreau describes his Robinson Crusoe existence, bare of creature comforts but rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man." "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty."