Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674484762
• ISBN13: 9780674484764
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"