The Portable Emerson, 9780143107460
Paperback
Discover Emerson’s influential mind: shaping America’s intellectual tradition.

The Portable Emerson

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  • Paperback

    768 pages

  • Release Date

    24 February 2015

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Summary

The Essential Emerson: An American Mind

An updated collection of representative works by the founder of America’s intellectual tradition.

A comprehensive collection of writings by “the most influential writer of the nineteenth century” (Harold Bloom). Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman were among Emer…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143107460
ISBN-10:0143107461
Author:Ralph Emerson
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:768
Release Date:24 February 2015
Weight:595g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 42mm
About The Author

Ralph Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an essayist, poet, philosopher, lecturer, and abolitionist whose ideas championed the importance of individualism and nature.

Jeffrey S. Cramer is the Curator of Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods. He is the editor of the award-winning Walden- A Fully Annotated Edition, The Quotable Thoreau, among other books. He lives in Maynard, Massachusetts.

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