Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau was renowned as a naturalist and a noted social critic and iconoclast. He is best known for ""Walden"", a work expressing his philosophy of individualism, and for his influential essay ""Civil Disobedience"". This volume from the ""Bloom's Classic Critical Views"" series features compelling essays from the 19th and early 20th centuries that offer students historical insights into Thoreau and his works.