
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Unabridged: 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: PD Collection LLC
Published: 08/02/2022

Author: Henry David Thoreau
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Unabridged: 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: PD Collection LLC
Published: 08/02/2022
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher best known for his book Walden and his essay “Civil Disobedience.” His seminal works have shaped generations of writers and political thinkers.
Edoardo Ballerini is a two-time winner of the Audio Publisher Association’s Best Male Narrator Award, a two-time winner of Society of Voice Arts Awards, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019.
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“Thoreau was a great writer, philosopher, poet, and…one of the greatest and most moral men America has produced…He went to gaol for the sake of his principles and suffering humanity. His essay [On the Duty of Civil Disobedience] has, therefore, been sanctified by suffering. Moreover, it is written for all time. Its incisive logic is unanswerable.”
“[In] Thoreau’s essay On Civil Disobedience…I made my first contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system, I was so deeply moved that I reread the work several times. I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau.”