"Man is his own star." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Probably no writer has so profoundly influenced American philosophy and literature, as did Emerson. Known ...

Emerson was an American essayist and poet who was a part of the Transcendentalist movement in the nineteenth century. These lectures begun in 1845 explore ...

In Nature, Emerson writes about the extraordinary power of nature as a way of bringing the divine into our lives. The essay stresses the importance of ...

A great American thinker discusses to what extent we control our own destiny, and other central concerns of human life in this collection of essays. Ralph ...

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Transcendentalists Collection includes four essential works of Emerson and Thoreau: Walden and Walking by Henry David Thoreau, and Self-Reliance and Nature ...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia ...