{"title":"Library Of America Ralph Waldo Emerson Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eDive into the profound essays and philosophical works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, presented in the esteemed Library of America edition. Explore transcendentalism and individualism through these beautifully curated volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ralph-waldo-emerson-essays-and-lectures-loa-15-book-ralph-waldo-emerson-9780940450158","title":"Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (LOA #15)","description":"This first Library of America volume of Emerson's writing covers the most productive period of his life, 1832-1860. Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called the great and crescive self, he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here are the indispensable and most renowned works, including The American Scholar (our intellectual Declaration of Independence, as Oliver Wendell Holmes called it), The Divinity School Address, considered atheistic by many of his listeners, the summons to Self-Reliance, along with the more embattled realizations of Circles and, especially, Experience. Here, too, are his wide-ranging portraits of Montaigne, Shakespeare, and other representative men, and his astute observations on the habits, lives, and prospects of the English and American people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This volume includes Emerson's well-known \u003ci\u003eNature; Addresses, and Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e (1849), his \u003ci\u003eEssays: First Series\u003c\/i\u003e (1841) and \u003ci\u003eEssays: Second Series\u003c\/i\u003e (1844), plus \u003ci\u003eRepresentative Men\u003c\/i\u003e (1850), \u003ci\u003eEnglish Traits\u003c\/i\u003e (1856), and his later book of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Conduct of Life\u003c\/i\u003e (1860). These are the works that established Emerson's colossal reputation in America and found him admirers abroad as diverse as Carlyle, Nietzsche, and Proust. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Emerson's enduring power is apparent everywhere in American literature: in those, like Whitman and some of the major twentieth-century poets, who seek to corroborate his vision, and among those, like Hawthorne and Melville, who questioned, qualified, and struggled with it. Emerson's vision reverberates also in the tradition of American philosophy, notably in the writings of William James and John Dewey, in the works of his European admirers, such as Nietzsche, and in the avant-garde theorists of our own day who write on the nature and function of language. The reasons for Emerson's durability will be obvious to any reader who follows the exhilarating, exploratory movements of his mind in this uniquely full gathering of his work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Not merely another selection of his essays, this volume includes all his major books in their rich entirety. No other volume conveys so comprehensively the exhilaration and exploratory energy of perhaps America's greatest writer.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49692762374417,"sku":"CIN0940450151G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50031546499345,"sku":"CIN0940450151A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50190721712401,"sku":"CIN0940450151VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50335626625297,"sku":"GOR006048375","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009746501905,"sku":"NIN9780940450158","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0940450151.jpg?v=1751141139"},{"product_id":"ralph-waldo-emerson-selected-journals-vol-1-1820-1842-loa-201-book-ralph-waldo-emerson-9781598530674","title":"Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals Vol. 1 1820-1842 (LOA #201)","description":"When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. Yet his most remarkable literary creation--his journals--remained unpublished. Begun when he was a precocious Harvard junior of 16 and continued without significant lapse for almost 60 years, Emerson's journals were his life's work. They were the starting point for virtually everything in his celebrated essays, lectures, and poems. It would be a hundred years after his death before these intimate records would appear in print in their entirety, and they are still, at over three million words, among the least known and least available of Emerson's writings.   With Selected Journals 1820-1842 and its companion volume Selected Journals 1841-1877, The Library of America presents the most ample and comprehensive nonspecialist edition of Emerson's great work ever published--one that retains the original order in which he composed his thoughts and preserves the dramatic range of his unique style in long, uninterrupted passages, but without the daunting critical apparatus of the 16-volume scholarly edition. Each volume includes a 16-page portfolio of images of Emerson and his contemporaries, a note on the selections, extensive notes, biographical sketches, a chronology, and an index.   This volume begins with Emerson's first journal entry, on January 25, 1820, in a homemade booklet he titled The Wide World, and follows him through his early years at Harvard College and the Divinity School, his ordination as a Unitarian minister, his marriage to Ellen Tucker and her untimely death, his fateful decision to leave the ministry, and his travels in England and on the Continent. It offers an irreplaceable perspective on the intellectual currents of the day--the emergence of Transcendentalism; the furor over Emerson's \"Divinity School Address\"; the founding of The Dial; experiments in communal living at Fruitlands and Brook Farm--and intimate sketches of Emerson's friends and contemporaries, including Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Thomas Carlyle, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others.   LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49763819749649,"sku":"CIN1598530674G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50005977235729,"sku":"CIN1598530674VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52953601933585,"sku":"NIN9781598530674","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1598530674.jpg?v=1751181640"},{"product_id":"ralph-waldo-emerson-selected-journals-vol-2-1841-1877-loa-202-book-ralph-waldo-emerson-9781598530681","title":"Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals Vol. 2 1841-1877 (LOA #202)","description":"When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. 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The journals reveal what Emerson called \"the infinitude of the private man\"-by turns whimsical, incisive, passionate, curious, and candid-in astonishing new ways.    With Selected Journals 1841-1877 and its companion volume Selected Journals 1820-1842, The Library of America presents the most ample and comprehensive nonspecialist edition of Emerson's great work ever published-one that retains the original order in which he composed his thoughts and preserves the dramatic range of his unique style in long, uninterrupted passages, but without the daunting critical apparatus of the 16-volume scholarly edition. Each volume includes a 16-page portfolio of images of Emerson and his contemporaries, a note on the selections, extensive notes, biographical sketches, a chronology, and an index.   This volume opens with an Emerson at the height of his powers, soon to write his celebrated essays \"Experience\" and \"Self-Reliance,\" and in the midst of a vibrant intellectual circle. It follows his anguished reactions to the nation's intensifying political turmoil: his anger at the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, his antislavery activism, and his day- to-day experience of the Civil War (including a wartime trip to Washington, D.C., where he met President Lincoln).  LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. 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