Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience are two wildly different books Henry David Thoreau wrote around the same time. Walden chronicles Thoreau's decision to isolate himself in a cabin in Walden Pond, Massachusetts. Meanwhile, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is a treatise of practical opposition to government tyranny and slavery. Though different, the books are united by the clarity provided by his productive isolation.