{"product_id":"emerson-essays-and-lectures-nature-addresses-and-lectures-essays-first-and-second-series-representative-men-english-traits-the-conduct-of-life","title":"Emerson Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures\/Essays: First and Second Series\/Representative Men\/English Traits\/The Conduct of Life","description":"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 all 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. The reasons for Emerson's influence and 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson \u003c\/b\u003e(1803-1882) settled in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834, where he began a career as a public lecturer. Every year Emerson made a lecture tour, the source of most of his essays. His principal publications include \u003cb\u003eNature\u003c\/b\u003e (1836), two volumes of \u003cb\u003eEssays\u003c\/b\u003e (1841, 1844), \u003cb\u003ePoems\u003c\/b\u003e (1847), \u003cb\u003eRepresentative Men\u003c\/b\u003e (1850), \u003cb\u003eThe Conduct of Life\u003c\/b\u003e (1860), and \u003cb\u003eSociety and Solitude\u003c\/b\u003e (1870). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoel Porte\u003c\/b\u003e (1933-2006), volume editor, won the Bowdoin Prize in 1962 for his essay on Emerson, and was granted the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Emerson Society in 2006. He authored many studies of nineteenth-century and modern literature, including \u003ci\u003eEmerson and Thoreau: Transcendentalists in Conflict, The Romance in America\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRepresentative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641410523410,"sku":"9780940450158","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_43facd22-4a17-47c1-a0d7-0fd8e85b15eb.jpg?v=1733015362","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/emerson-essays-and-lectures-nature-addresses-and-lectures-essays-first-and-second-series-representative-men-english-traits-the-conduct-of-life","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}