Emerson Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures/Essays: First and Second Series/Representative Men/English Traits/The Conduct of Life

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book Overview

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 called "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes.

Here are all the indispensable and most renowned works, including "The American Scholar" ("our intellectual Declaration of Independence," as Oliver Wendell Holmes called it), "The Divinity School...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940450151
• ISBN13: 9780940450158
• Release Date: November 1983
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 1150 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.2" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher