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Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Two years at Walden Pond, and the essay on refusing an unjust government that later moved Gandhi and King.
Henry David Thoreau
·September 3, 2026
Thoreau's account of the two years, two months, and two days he spent living deliberately in a cabin he built himself, paired here with "Civil Disobedience," the short, furious essay he wrote after a night in jail for refusing to pay a tax that funded a war he opposed. One book about withdrawing from the world to see it clearly, one about refusing to cooperate with it — both still argued about today. Public domain, added to The Archive.\n\nRead the full text free at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/205
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