Authors:Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Alfred R. Fergus
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: volume, xiii, emerson, waldo, ralph, journals
Number of Pages: 588
Published: 1977-01-01
List price: $124.00
ISBN-10: 0674484762
ISBN-13: 9780674484764

The journals printed in this volume, covering the years 1852 to 1855, find Emerson increasingly drawn to the issues and realities of the pragmatic, hard-working nineteenth century. His own situation as a middle-aged, property-owning New Englander with a large household to support gave him a strong sense of everyday financial necessity, and his wide reading for his projected book on the English impressed him deeply with the worldly success that had conic to that unphiiosophieal people. The growing crisis over slavery at home, moreover, demanded the attention of every citizen, even one as relu

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Dickens Press
Keywords: sketches, biographical, lectures
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2008-10-27
List price: $35.45
ISBN-10: 144377474X
ISBN-13: 9781443774741

LECTURES AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY b6o nlberbibe p dambcibne NOTE 0 F the pieces included in this volume the following, namely, those from the Dial, Character, Plutarch and the biographical sketches of Dr. Ripley, of Mr. Hoar and of Henry Thoreau, were printed by Mr. Emerson before I took any part in the arrangement of his papers. The rest, except the sketches of Miss Mary Emerson and of Major Stearns, I got ready for his use in readings to his friends or to a limited public. He had given up the regular practice of lecturing,

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Library of America
Keywords: essays, lectures, traits, english, conduct, library, america, men, life, series, addresses, nature, first, second, emerson, representative
Number of Pages: 1150
Published: 1983-11-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0940450151
ISBN-13: 9780940450158

The major works of Emerson’s most productive period in their entirety: "Nature: Addresses and Lectures," "Essays: First and Second Series," "Representative Men," "English Traits," and "The Conduct of Life."

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: editions, thrift, dover, essays, reliance
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1993-10-13
List price: $3.50
ISBN-10: 0486277909
ISBN-13: 9780486277905

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: General Books LLC
Keywords: essays, emerson
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2009-12-22
List price: $6.71
ISBN-10: 1150662441
ISBN-13: 9781150662447

Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: A.L. Humphreys Subjects: Literary Collections / American / General Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: COMPENSATION [VER since I was a boy I have wished

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: traits, english
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1419117912
ISBN-13: 9781419117916

My Narrow And Desultory Reading Had Inspired The Wish To See The Faces Of Three Or Four Writers, -- Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, De Quincey, And The Latest And Strongest Contributor To The Critical Journals, Carlyle; And I Suppose If I Had Sifted The Reasons That Led Me To Europe, When I Was Ill And Was Advised To Travel, It Was Mainly The Attraction Of These Persons.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: essays, emerson
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1981-08-24
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0060909064
ISBN-13: 9780060909062

The only collection of the complete First and Second Series of essays by America’s most popular sage, available in an affordable paperback edition. A must for students of American culture and literature.