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1.Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by: Ralph Waldo Emerson October 13, 1993
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Its was a well done order i had no troblems receivin it. It came on time.

2.The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics) by: Ralph Waldo Emerson September 12, 2000
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Emerson's essays are, of course, absolutely superb, and this Modern Library edition is handsomely bound, as are all of the books in this series. The editing, however, is lacking and leaves something to be desired. For example, the header at the top of the page in the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series merely states that fact, rather than the actual essay name, which makes it tedious to return to a particular essay--you must first go to the front of the book, locate the correct page number, and then find that, rather than just thumb through the book. The essays themselves are introduced quite unceremoniously and in a rather understated manner, to say the least. "The American Scholar" is merely introduced with the two brief sentences, "This is the Phi Beta Kappa address ... Read More

3.Essays and Lectures: Nature: Addresses and Lectures / Essays: First and Second Series / Representative Men / English Traits / The Conduct of Life (Library of America) by: Ralph Waldo Emerson November 15, 1983
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Like fine wine, these essays get better with time. Beware of trying to rush through these fine philosophical teachings. Like Maxwell house, it's good to the last drop!

4.One Hundred and One Famous Poems (Poetry) by: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Gordon - Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, Thomas Gray, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling January 01, 1993
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This is a wonderful collection of poems. IT is a national treasure. I had this book and lost it, thinking that by now it was out of print. I love the variety of authors and the variety of each author's poems.

5.Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) by: Henry David Thoreau, Peter Matthiessen November 14, 2000
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Walden, of course, is a timeless classic. I've read it in its entirety several times, and I keep this book at my bedside so I can flip to my favorite chapters, Solitude, The Ponds, Winter Animals, Spring, etc., any time I wish. Only Thoreau can end a book with the sentence "The Sun is but a morning star". About the only thing I am not that crazy about in this book is the first chapter "Economy", it seems to me that Thoreau just spent a little too much justifying his living at Walden, why he tells a story about himself, etc. As to this book, you have Walden and a few famous short essays (Civil Disobedience, Life without principle, etc.) in their entirety. Do not expect much from the excerpts from other works (A week, the Maine woods, Cape Cod and the journal), they merely give you very fragmented glimpses ... Read More

6.Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems by: Ralph Waldo Emerson September 01, 1990
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Excellent writer, good ideas, but verbose to the extreme. I would enjoy Emerson if his flowery dialogues were to the point. Instead he endlessly adds so much snow to fill fill up a chapter that some of his brilliant thoughts are dulled. In my opinion most of the chapters could have been reduced to a page or two. If you like long conversations with people who endlessly drone on to make their point; if you enjoy long winded discussions, Emerson will entertain you. Dr. Raymond DuRussel

7.The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions) by: Ralph Waldo Emerson July 31, 2008
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Excellent writer, good ideas, but verbose to the extreme. I would enjoy Emerson if his flowery dialogues were to the point. Instead he endlessly adds so much snow to fill fill up a chapter that some of his brilliant thoughts are dulled. In my opinion most of the chapters could have been reduced to a page or two. If you like long conversations with people who endlessly drone on to make their point; if you enjoy long winded discussions, Emerson will entertain you. Dr. Raymond DuRussel

8.The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle & Ralph Waldo Emerson 1834-1872 (Volume I) by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle November 03, 2008
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Excellent writer, good ideas, but verbose to the extreme. I would enjoy Emerson if his flowery dialogues were to the point. Instead he endlessly adds so much snow to fill fill up a chapter that some of his brilliant thoughts are dulled. In my opinion most of the chapters could have been reduced to a page or two. If you like long conversations with people who endlessly drone on to make their point; if you enjoy long winded discussions, Emerson will entertain you. Dr. Raymond DuRussel

9.Self-Reliance by: Ralph Waldo Emerson August 01, 2007
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Excellent writer, good ideas, but verbose to the extreme. I would enjoy Emerson if his flowery dialogues were to the point. Instead he endlessly adds so much snow to fill fill up a chapter that some of his brilliant thoughts are dulled. In my opinion most of the chapters could have been reduced to a page or two. If you like long conversations with people who endlessly drone on to make their point; if you enjoy long winded discussions, Emerson will entertain you. Dr. Raymond DuRussel

10.Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics) by: Ralph Waldo Emerson May 27, 2003
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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 the great harmonizer and harmony. He writes of our proper moral relation to it as a way of bringing the divinity into our lives. Emerson makes an analogy between the moral and the spiritual which he claims we can only understand intellectually in proportion to our virtue or the goodness of our character. In writing of Language and Nature he writes that true poetic speech has a command over, and can move and shape ... Read More

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