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Walden; and Civil Disobedience
Thoreau’s account of the two years he lived in a cabin he built himself beside Walden Pond, with the essay on why he went to jail sooner than pay a tax.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 9–12
- First published
- 1854 (Civil Disobedience, 1849)
- This edition
- Walden complete, followed by the essay Civil Disobedience.
- Pages
- 284
- Prompts
- 19, one at the close of each chapter
A prompt from this edition.
Every chapter of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
By Thoreau’s definition, the cost of a thing is “the amount of what I will call life” exchanged for it. Later he proposes a race to Fitchburg, himself afoot, a friend earning the ninety-cent fare, and claims “the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.” Copy the definition into the margin and list under it what each traveller gives up. Does the walker pay less?
At the close of “Economy”, Walden; and Civil Disobedience.
Made like the printed Frankenstein
Every title uses our standard page layout and is made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages284
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, 120 gsm
- EndpapersPrinted, with different art at front and back
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond, with a ruled column in the outer margin and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts19, one at the close of each chapter
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio