Henry David Thoreau

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience (Annotated) Henry David Thoreau

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, which helps us understand this literary work. We must pay special attention to those events that especially influenced the world of culture and art and also to those events that were especially reflected in literature, in the life of its writer or that affected it. There are many examples in which historical events have shaped the content and forms of literature, as well as this has often been the best testimony to the importance of certain events throughout history. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its time. Challenge, rebellion and resistance have been present, since ancient times, both in the creation of myths of humanity, from the biblical accounts of Genesis with Eve at the head, through Greco-Latin mythology (Prometheus), literary works ( Antigone, Lysistrata); even in history since the beginning of ancient Egypt, in the Middle Ages or Modernity. Of course, this story does not stay in the distant times but it crosses, with many examples, all the latitudes and geographies where human beings have been creating civilization. Disobeying established truths, challenging the powerful, rebelling against injustices, resisting domination, protesting arbitrariness, exploring beyond the limits set