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  • Published: 30 December 2014
  • ISBN: 9780698155688
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 752
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The Portable Emerson




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.

  • Published: 30 December 2014
  • ISBN: 9780698155688
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 752
Categories:

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The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
On Sparta
Venus in Furs
Man and Superman
Botchan
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