Prague College Library: The Portable Emerson (Viking Portable Library)
Title: | The Portable Emerson (Viking Portable Library) |
Categories: | General |
BookID: | GE-0177 |
Authors: | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
ISBN-10(13): | 9780140150940 |
Publisher: | Penguin Books |
Publication date: | 1981-08-27 |
Edition: | New |
Number of pages: | 720 |
Language: | English |
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Product Description This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others. |