The Greatest Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

This meticulously edited collection contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:

Introduction:

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books:

The Conduct of Life:

Fate

Power

Wealth

Culture

Behavior

Worship

Considerations by the Way

Beauty

Illusions

Essays-First Series:

History

Self-Reliance

Compensation

Spiritual Laws

Love

Friendship

Prudence

Heroism

The Over-Soul

Circles

Intellect

Art

Essays-Second Series:

The Poet

Experience

Character

Manners

Gifts

Nature

Politics

Nominalist and Realist

New England Reformers

Nature:

Commodity

Beauty

Language

Discipline

Idealism

Spirit

Prospects

Representative Men:

Plato

Emanuel Swedenborg

Michel de Montaigne

William Shakespeare

Napoleon

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Addresses and Lectures:

The American Scholar

An Address in Divinity College

Literary Ethics

The Method of Nature

Man the Reformer

Lecture on The Times

The Conservative

The Transcendentalist

The Young American



Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.