Published together here, Walden (1854) and Civil Disobedience (1849) represent the two great expressions of Henry David Thoreau’s philosophy. Walden records his two years of deliberate, simplified living in a cabin by Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts; Civil Disobedience argues for the individual’s moral obligation to resist unjust laws.
Both works have had enormous influence — Walden on environmental thought and simple living, Civil Disobedience on Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and movements for social justice worldwide. Download this free public-domain EPUB at Better Gutenberg.