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Nature and Selected Essays

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Description for Nature and Selected Essays Paperback. Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. This title introduces fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings. Editor(s): Ziff, Larzer. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 286.

Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism.
Larzer Ziff's introduction to this collection of fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provides the ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780142437629
SKU
V9780142437629
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About Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the son of a Unitarian minister and a chaplain during the American Revolution, was born in 1803 in Boston. He attended the Boston Latin School, and in 1817 entered Harvard, graduating in 1820. Emerson supported himself as a schoolteacher from 1821-26. In 1826 he was "approbated to preach," and in 1829 became pastor of ... Read more

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