Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Waldo Emerson Forbes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, the man and thinker, will be fully revealed for the first time in this new edition of his journals and notebooks. The old image of the ideal nineteenth-century gentleman, created by editorial omissions of his spontaneous thoughts, is replaced by the picture of Emerson as he really was. His frank and often bitter criticisms of men and society, his "nihilizing," his anguish at the death of his first wife, his bleak struggles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674484509
• ISBN13: 9780674484504
• Release Date: January 1960
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.5"