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The Conduct of Life (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Nature and Other Essays

Contributors

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Mar 8, 2011
Page Count
324 pages
Publisher
BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781411440081

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$1.99

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$2.99 CAD

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ebook (Digital original)

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This 1860 collection, based on Emerson’s lectures, contains classic essays on broad topics such as “Fate,” “Power,” “Wealth,” “Culture,” and “Worship,” among others. Printed in the year Lincoln became President, it probes questions of the necessary conditions for human life and freedom. Emerson’s friend, the great English historian Thomas Carlyle, wrote of this book, “I never read from you such lightning-gleams of meaning as are to be found here.”


Ralph Waldo Emerson

About the Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet.  Along with such figures as Henry Thoreau and Margaret Fuller, he was an originator and, through the magazine The Dial, popularizer of the Transcendentalist movement.  In essays like "Self-Reliance," he championed a distinctly American brand of individualism. 

David Mikics is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Honors and English at the University of Houston. His books include Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, The Annotated Emerson, and Bellow's People. A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, he is a columnist for Tablet magazine and lives in Brooklyn and Houston. 

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