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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series: A Library of America Paperback Classic
Contributor(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Author), Crase, Douglas (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1598530844     ISBN-13: 9781598530841
Publisher: Library of America
OUR PRICE:   $11.66  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Collections | American - General
Dewey: 814.3
Series: Library of America
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.56" W x 7.96" (0.87 lbs) 416 pages
 
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Emerson's prose is his triumph, both as eloquence and as insight. After Shakespeare, it matches anything else in the language.
-Harold Bloom

Here are Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic essays, including the exhortation to Self-Reliance, the embattled realizations of Circles and Experience, and the groundbreaking achievement of Nature. Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he calls the great and crescive self, he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Also gathered here are his wide-ranging discourses on history, art, politics, friendship, love, and much more.
For almost thirty years, The Library of America has presented America's best and most significant writing in acclaimed hardcover editions. Now, a new series, Library of America Paperback Classics, offers attractive and affordable books that bring The Library of America's authoritative texts within easy reach of every reader. Each book features an introductory essay by one of a leading writer, as well as a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice and history of the text, and notes.

The contents of this Paperback Classic are drawn from Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures, volume number 15 in the Library of America series. It is joined in the series by three companion volumes, gathering Emerson's poems, translations, and selections from his journals.