Selected Stories of Ralph Waldo Emerson

2018-08-19
 |  Fiction
Selected Stories of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

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Category: Fiction

Page: 668

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It chanced during one winter, a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age. By an odd coincidence, four or five noted men were each reading a discourse to the citizens of Boston or New York, on the Spirit of the Times. It so happened that the subject had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season. To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity. ‘Tis fine for us to speculate and elect our course, if we must accept an irresistible dictation.

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The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

2005
 |  Literary Criticism
The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

ISBN: 0820327336

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 422

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This is the first and only comprehensive selection of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, his era’s most prominent American man of letters and one of the foremost architects of our intellectual culture. Based on authoritative texts selected and edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson--the most experienced Emerson editors working today--these twenty-five addresses collectively exemplify the lecture style for which Emerson was famed in his day. Best known to his contemporaries as a lecturer, Emerson delivered some 1,500 addresses over the course of his career. Because his most important ideas were worked out in his lectures, they provide the best record we have of his evolving thought--and thus are a key to our understanding of his essays and other printed works. Gathered here are lectures on American culture, literary theory and aesthetics, moral and, as Emerson called it, "intellectual" philosophy, and social and political reform. They are taken from speaking engagements in the United States and the British Isles over the period 1833-1871, during which Emerson often spent four to six months a year on the lecture circuit; lectures from the earliest years of Emerson’s career (1833-1842) have been newly edited for this volume. The volume’s introduction draws on contemporary accounts to describe Emerson’s idiosyncratic but utterly memorable manner of speaking. A headnote provides context to the composition and delivery of each lecture, and footnotes identify Emerson’s allusions to persons, places, occasions, quotations, and books. "By examining his lectures and how they were delivered," say Bosco and Myerson, "we can look into the laboratory of Emerson’s intellectual and compositional process and see his published writings gestating."

Selected Stories

2011-06
 |  Fiction
Selected Stories

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 9780674050228

Category: Fiction

Page: 375

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Dark, weird, psychologically complex, Hawthorne’s short fiction continues to fascinate readers. Brenda Wineapple has made a generous selection of Hawthorne’s stories, including some of his best-known tales as well as other, less-often anthologized gems. In her introduction, she explores a writer whose best stories, as Wineapple has elsewhere observed, “penetrate the secret horrors of ordinary life, those interstices in the general routine where suddenly something or someone shifts out of place, changing everything.” The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative texts of Hawthorne’s stories in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2006-12-26
 |  Literary Collections
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: Bantam Classics

ISBN: 9780553903324

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 416

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A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets. The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women and slaves, and a poet of great sensitivity. As explored in this volume, Emersonian thought is a unique blend of belief in individual freedom and in humility before the power of nature. “I become a transparent eyeball,” Emerson wrote in Nature, “I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.” Written over a century ago, this passage is a striking example of the passion and originality of Emerson’s ideas, which continue to serve as a spiritual center and an ideological base for modern thought.

7 Short Stories that INTP Will Love

2019-09-06
 |  Fiction
7 Short Stories that INTP Will Love

Author: Saki

Publisher: Tacet Books

ISBN: 9788577774494

Category: Fiction

Page: 111

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INTPs are brilliant and always think outside the box, are highly observant and not interested in routine. In this book you will find seven short stories specially selected to please the tastes of the INTP. These are stories by renowned authors that will surely bring reflections, insights and fun to people with this kind of personality. This book contains: - The Interlopers by Saki. - Meditations: Book Three by Marcus Aurelius. - The Disintegration Machine by Arthur Conan Doyle. - The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft. - Intellect by Ralph Waldo Emerson. - Grace by James Joyce. - The Fly by Katherine Mansfield.For more books that will suit you, be sure to check out our Two Classic Novels your Myers-Briggs Type Will Love collection! *** Cover image: René Descartes (1596-1650), one of the founders of modern philosophy and INTP.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2000-01-01
 |  Literary Collections
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Oscar W. Firkins

Publisher: Courier Corporation

ISBN: 0486411001

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 404

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Well-researched and related in a lively, engaging style, this volume offers a definitive look at the life and times of "the sage of Concord." Emerson possessed a creative and rebellious intellect that led him on a lifelong quest to place universal truths within a framework of social reality. This work traces the development of his often-controversial ideas and their expression, with criticisms of Emerson's early transcendentalist works, poetry, and later writings, as well as a survey of his influence on other authors.