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  <title><![CDATA[Emerson: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provide important information on the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years.   

Contents:
*Nature
*The American Scholar                                
*An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge
*Man the Reformer
*History
*Self-Reliance
*The Over-Soul
*Circles
*The Transcendentalist
*The Poet
*Experience
*Montaigne; Or, the Skeptic
*Napoleon, Or, the Man of the World
*Fate
*Thoreau
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">29</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">4</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1982</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Emerson: Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, here's the deal because I know I am in the minority.  This is just a really tough book to understand.  I tried really hard to follow it, but found myself getting lost often.  Emerson is a great writer, and when I was in highschool I did read some of his selections, but reading over 300 pages was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16867630">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the fathers of the American spirit, not crafting its bill of rights or structure of government, but in defining individuality, pragmatism and spirituality for a new country built on people escaping the old. The seminal essay, &quot;On Self-Reliance,&quot; is worth the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4679270">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 20 17:31:29 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Emerson with my Unitarian book group is interesting. For them, he's not just an entry in the American literary canon; he might just hold the answers to some of life's questions. It's an unusual approach for me, but refreshing. Reminds me of my freshman year of college, when I read Plato and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25803430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5983728">
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    <body><![CDATA[Emerson's more popular essays are rather astounding.  I think he is one of those writers whose popular work really is his goodwork--the less popular stuff comes off as didactic and repetitive.  My favorites: &quot;John Brown,&quot; &quot;Self-Relaince,&quot; &quot;American Scholar,&quot; and &quot;T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5983728">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69477246">
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    <body><![CDATA[Good stuff.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the great tragedies of my grad school experience was that I read so many excellent books so quickly that I can't remember much of them except that they were good.  Someone with my handwriting has written thoughtful comments all over the margins of this book, but I couldn't tell you the first ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16160002">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34149644">
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    <name><![CDATA[Shelli]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Emerson is one of my favorite authors, and has been since the early 1980s.  His style is direct and enlightening, and you'll get a great view of religion in New England in the early 1800s.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am always referring back to these wonderful essays time and time again. Self Reliance is still one of my favorites!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just lovely.]]></body>
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