Walden: Containing Economy and Where I Lived and What I Lived for (Classics Retold to Be Read, Not Just Revered)

Description: Part of the Classics Retold to be Read, Not just Revered series, this retelling of the first two chapters of "Walden" has been undertaken to make the book more widely accessible--without diluting its intellectual content.

Brief description: The AuthorHenry David Thoreau (1817-62) was a philosopher, naturalist, and abolitionist. He is considered the father of modern environmentalism. In 1846 he spent a night in jail for refusing to pay taxes to a government that permitted slavery. This experience led to his writing Civil Disobedience, which called for individual resistance to immoral government, and which influenced the thinking of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and others.