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Henry David Thoreau: Grasping the Community of the World

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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a two-act American play by Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence, written in 1969. The play is based on the early life of the title character, Henry David Thoreau, leading up to the night he spent in jail in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau was jailed because he had refused to pay a poll tax that might be used to pay for the Mexican–American War, which he opposed. Writing in The New York Times, reviewer Howard Taubman described the ideological relevance of the play to contemporary audiences, stating "this play and its protagonist, though they are of the 19th century, are speaking to today's concerns: an unwanted war in another land, civil disobedience, the inte…

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The Maine Woods is an 1864 book by American naturalist writer Henry David Thoreau. Published two years after the author's death, it is a collection of three writings recounting trips Thoreau made through the North Maine Woods.

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"Resistance to Civil Government", also called "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" or "Civil Disobedience", is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should prioritize their conscience over compliance with unjust laws, asserting that passive submission to government authority enables injustice. Thoreau was motivated by his opposition to slavery and the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), which he viewed as morally and politically objectionable. The essay has had a significant impact on political thought and activism, influencing figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, who adopted its principles in the struggle for Ind…

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state. Thoreau's books, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day enviro…