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Letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson to a Friend, 1838-1853 by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1899 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1849 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1899 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. 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 & correspondence and more than 1,500 public lectures and speeches across the United States. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays & correspondence and speeches encompasses a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom,...