With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ", for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are <i>Walden</i>, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, <i>Civil Disobedience</i> and <i>Life Without Principle</i>. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--is recorded in selections from <i>A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods</i> and <i>The Journal</i>.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Henry David Thoreau<br><b>Publisher:</b> Bantam Classics<br><b>Published:</b> 09/01/1983<br><b>Pages:</b> 464<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.45lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.87h x 4.20w x 0.86d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780553212464<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 10.3<br><b>Point Value:</b> 51<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>52127 / Walden and Other Writings<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Henry David Thoreau was born July 12, 1817 - "just in the nick of time," as he wrote, for the "flowering of New England," when the area boasted such eminent citizens as Emerson, Hawthorne, Whitman and Melville. Raised in genteel poverty - his father made and sold pencils from their home - Thoreau enjoyed, nevertheless, a fine education, graduating from