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Essays and Lectures: Nature: Addresses and Lectures / Essays: First and Second Series / Representative Men / ...

14 reviews
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Library of America, 1983

The Most American Book of the Collection
I have lately developed a love affair with the Library of America, and this is its most important book. Emerson more than any other struck a course for the future of American letters outside the confines of the British tradition. This edition has all of the standard essays you would find in any one volume paperback (Self-Reliance, Harvard Divinity School Address, etc.), plus many more less known ...

Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)

17 reviews
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dover Publications, 1993

Broad-minded and radical thoughts
This book has a collection of some of Emerson's best essays including "Self-Reliance" which is probably his most popular work. The underlying theme of all of them is essentially the same: "individuality." He advocated trusting and following one's own instincts and thoughts instead of blindly copying the customs and traditions of society. He encouraged people to search for the truth themselves ...

Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)

2 reviews
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Penguin Classics, 2003

One of the great essayists -An American original and classic
Emerson is one of the greatest of essayists. His thoughts have a poetic power. But they are often complex and paradoxical and difficult to understand. The title essay of this collection, 'Nature' is one of Emerson's most famous works. In it he in a sense talks about forgetting the fundamentalist reading of Scriptures and finding a true meeting with God through Nature. For Emerson , Nature is ...

Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005

Essays and Poems , by Ralph Waldo Emerson , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors ...

Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

21 reviews
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kessinger Publishing, 2005

Eye Opening Essays
If the words of Whitman do not prompt one to at least explore the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson, nothing I say will be able to (or should). I suppose though many readers have merely seen Emerson's name after a famous quote or heard it mentioned by others and are curious about what he wrote. The books contains his most essential, influential essays. Each contain classical Emerson thought, ...

The Tao of Emerson (Modern Library)

1 review
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lao Tsu

Modern Library, 2007

nicely done
This very nice little hardbound places each verse from the tao te ching on the left, with a philosophically corresponding selection of Emerson's verse or prose on the right. While it may be true that the TTC was not translated into english until after Emerson's death, Emerson was very aware of and a student of Asian thought, and his best writing captures/ translates much of the spirit of the ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

5 reviews
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bantam Classics, 1990

At long last: someone worth reading....
I discovered Emerson at age 34, and it was like coming home. I have always been, I guess, a natural "transcendentalist". In other words, I instinctively and intuitively fell into a transcendentalist mindset and way of thinking without ever having read any. So I've read Thoreau and Annie Dillard and frankly can't stand either of them. I find them a little strained. Emerson, to me at least, is ...

Business Law (Barron's Business Review Series)

25 reviews
J.D. Emerson Robert W.

Barron's Educational Series, 2003

Buy this book for the CLEP exam
I bought this book to study for the CLEP introductory business law exam after reading the customer reviews on Amazon. I agree with most everyone on here that this book is a good resource and will help you pass the CLEP exam. The only problem I saw with the book was the order of the chapters. Specifically it didn't really define Torts until chapter 19 and yet the term was used several times ...

Figure Studies (Southern Messenger Poets)
Claudia Emerson

Louisiana State University Press, 2008

Poet Claudia Emerson begins Figure Studies with a twenty-five-poem lyric sequence called "All Girls School," offering intricate views of a richly imagined boarding school for girls. Whether focused on a lesson, a teacher, or the girls themselves as they collectively "school"--or refuse to--the poems explore ways girls are "trained" in the broadest sense of the word. "Gossips," the second section, is a shorter sequence narrated by women as they ...

Love & R The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs

224 reviews
Emerson Eggerichs

Thomas Nelson, 2004

The Best Book for Engaged Couples
I've been engaged for a few months and I prayed to God to deliver me from some serious anger issues I had only when dealing with my soon to be husband. I struggled giving up my independence and I realized that fear played a big role in my anger as well as a lack of respect for this beautiful person in my life. Well God answered my prayers by leading me to this spiritually sound book and this has ...

Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

7 reviews
Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, ...

University Of Chicago Press, 1995

An Excellent Resource
Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw have put together not only an excellent handbook for writing ethnographic fieldnotes, but an insightful study of the practical issues confronting anyone doing interpretative writing about culture. The book's primary focus is on how to effectively take and maintain fieldnotes. They appropriately begin at the ground by discussing how to take jottings and other quick ...

Transcendentalism: Essential Essays of Emerson & Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prestwick House, Inc., 2008

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and notes to help the modern reader appreciate details that may otherwise be confusing or overlooked. Funny, fascinating, irritating, and impossible to ignore, the Transcendentalists demand that readers look inward, heed their own consciences, and, above all, act on their own convictions. The most famous of this set, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, are known ...

Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Signet Classics)

5 reviews
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Signet Classics, 2003

Discusses principles of life, living and our nature.
Emerson is quoted as often as any other writer or speaker. Not becausea few lines here and there are profound. Rather because he understands more about human beings and life. He is thought provoking and so deep its a joy to read the same essay several times. If people take the time to read it they will understand many things about life they can't get other places.I find it interesting we live ...

The Portable Emerson (Viking Portable Library)

6 reviews
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1981

Excellent Emerson
Emerson's writings are eaily and clearly displayed in this wonderful publication. My thirst for poetry was easily quenched with his powerful and meaningful words. I would recommend this book to anyone who wishes to read thoughtful and discriptive literature.

Face Down O'er the Border: A Lady Appleton Mystery (Lady Appleton Mysteries)

1 review
Kathy Lynn Emerson

Perseverance Press, 2007

Scotch Broth
The continuing saga of these characters during the Elizabethan Age moves to Scotland in the year 1577, the year Mary, the Scottish abdicated Queen, is held prisoner in England. Her 11-year-old son James is heir to the throne and rule is in the hands of a series of regents who keep dying. Amid this political unrest, Catherine Glenelg is found unconscious down a flight of stairs and her ...

The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

8 reviews
Richard Geldard

Lindisfarne Books, 2001

an american spiritual treasure
yes, go ahead, hit your one-click order button now. for anyone interested in the life, thought, ideals and teachings of a GREAT american original, this is a book you want and need. brilliant, beautiful, eternal, this book will not go out of date. universal wisdom is timeless and Emerson was a master. he was an avid admirer of the wondrous Bhagavad Gita and his writings reflect that. he had an ...

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

9 reviews
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belknap Press, 2006

Ralph Waldo Emersom: an appreciation
Although he was considered during his lifetime to be a profoundly radical thinker, Emerson, the Transcendentalist chief, after his death, was soon reinterpreted as a bland Bostonian Brahmin, a mystic anarchist who was only brave on paper. It cannot be denied that his philosophy of a joyful and affirmationist acceptance of life, and of nature, his anti-slavery activities, his attacks on the state ...

Emerson's Prose and Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)

3 reviews
Ralph Waldo Emerson

W. W. Norton, 2001

One anthology among the many - but nonetheless Emerson
Whether 'Modern Literary ' or 'Bantam' or 'Norton' or even the 'Collected Works' one comes to the essential thing which is the writing of Emerson himself. There is almost always the selection from 'Nature' and 'The Harvard Divinity School Address' and selections of other 'Essays' and some of the poetry including the anthology pieces like 'Concord Hymn' and perhaps some of the diary ...

Mr. Emerson's Wife

14 reviews
Amy Belding Brown

St. Martin's Griffin, 2006

Wonderful!
I couldnt wait to get my hands on this wonderful novel. I was captivated by Mrs. Emerson. She is strong and bright. Although it's a work of fiction, it has very much sparked my interest in other women of the time period. Beautifully written, with great respect to all of the "characters" of the time period. A must read. I couldnt put it down. Absolutely loved it!

The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings

1 review
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beacon Press, 2004

A New Light
David Robinson, once again, has shown through this superb selection of Emerson's essays the spiritual/religious underpinnings of America's premier Romantic.

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