On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, credited to Henry David Thoreau, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. Read by Gord Mackenzie. Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thoreau’s belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty both to avoid doing injustice directly and to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War. (Summary from Wikipedia).

Recording facts

• Recording title: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
• Author credits: Henry David Thoreau
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 2
• Listed recording duration: 1:21:19

Catalogue topics

• thoreau
• government
• essay
• resistance

Track guide

1. Chapter 1 — 42:40
2. Chapter 2 — 38:39

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