6 livres semblables à Walden, ou la Vie dans les bois / De la désobéissance civile
Walden ou la Vie dans les bois
Walden first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance.
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Thèmes communs : Solitude, Wilderness areas, Homes and haunts, Natural history
La Désobéissance civile
Written with the motto "that government is best that governs least", when men are ready for it, that will be the kind of government we will have. This book tries to tell us to think for ourselves. This is a Must Read for anyone anti-government. Please note: This book is in easy to read true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. This e-Book is printable.
Thèmes communs : Civil disobedience, Resistance to Government, Homes and haunts, American Authors
Une semaine sur les rivières Concord et Merrimack
Thoreau's first book excels at depicting nature around his trip in words.
Thèmes communs : Thoreau, Massachusetts
Marcher
If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again, - if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.Walking is an essay by American writer, naturalist and philosopher David Thoreau (1817 - 1862). Thoreau's work has made a lasting…
Thèmes communs : Thoreau, Natural history, Philosophy
Vivre à la dure
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known as "Mark Twain," left Missouri in 1861 to work with his brother, the newly appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Once settled in Nevada, Clemens fell victim to gold fever and went to the Humboldt mines. When prospecting lost its attractions, Clemens found work as a reporter in Virginia City. In 1864, Clemens moved to California and worked…
Thèmes communs : Homes and haunts, American Authors, Biography & Memoir
La Chronologie de l'eau
This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of extreme grief on a young woman's developing sexuality that some define as untraditional…
Thèmes communs : American Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir
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