Books by Henry David Thoreau
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review 1: Some fairly specious reasoning in here. It is lovely that Thoreau has become a symbol of all that is right with the world, but I am reviewing the text, not him. The first part of the text is argument, the middle is an account of his night in jail, and the final third is commentar...
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review 1: Having just finished Walden, I felt it was time to also read Henry David Thoreau's other major work here. So much shorter than Walden, I read this essay in one sitting. I don't feel that there is a need for me to summarize its plot; most know it already, even if they have not rea...
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review 1: متن خود نافرمانی مدنی و همچنین افزوده های این جزوه ی الکترونیکی بسیار جالب و جذاب بودند. البته برای من بیشتر از نفس این اثر و رویکردهاش، زندگی شخص ثورو و عملکردهاش جالب و گیرا بودند. باید اذعان کرد که افزوده ها واقعا بجا و مناسبند.در مورد ترجمه باید متاسفانه اذعان کرد که ترجمه ی ...
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review 1: I have a difficult time swallowing the full consequences of anarchists/individualists system of society. They take the idea of man must be free, the power and importance of the individual. He even goes to far in saying that a majority of one is still a majority. What a twisted...
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review 1: Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" was a fun little read but not what I expected. This is a work I had heard inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Somehow I expected it to be a cogent essay on opposing government through nonviolent resistance when government ...