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  • Audiobook

    Self-Reliance

    Unabridged

    1 hour 14 min

    "Self-Reliance" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a prominent American philosopher and essayist from the 19th century. Published in 1841, the essay explores the concept of individualism and the importance of trusting one's own instincts and beliefs. Emerson advocates for the rejection of conformity and societal expectations, encouraging readers to rely on their own intuition and inner ... Read more

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    Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 2 min

    Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history.Although Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps America’s most famous philosopher, did not wish to be referred to as a transcendentalist, he is nevertheless considered the founder of this major movement of nineteenth-century American thought. Emerson was influenced ... Read more

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  • Self-Reliance

    Self-Reliance is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains a stirring call for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and to follow their own instincts and ideas. It contains one of Emerson's most famous quotations: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and ... Read more

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  • Nature and Selected Essays

    An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophyThrough his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, ... Read more

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  • Sacajawea

    by Anna L. Waldo ...
    Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation.She knew many men, walked many miles. From the whispering prairies, across the Great Divide to the crystal capped Rockies and on to the emerald promise of the ... Read more

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  • The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Introduction by Mary OliverCommentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David ThoreauThe definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true “American Scholar.” As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy ... Read more

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  • Self-Reliance and Other Essays

    Follow the thoughts of essayist, poet and American Transcendentalism founder Ralph Waldo Emerson as he discovered his own belief system in the anthology "Self-Reliance and Other Essays." In "Self-Reliance," Emerson explained that standing on one's own two feet against society was essential to forming a strong union with God. Once this essay was published, it received both wild praise and hurtful ... Read more

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  • Emerson's Essays (first and second series)

    Series 1 and 2. According to Wikipedia: "Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the ... Read more

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  • Emerson

    The Ultimate Collection

    Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was also a champion of individualism.The transcendentalists believe in the inherent goodness of both people and nature. They further believed that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—corrupt the purity of the individual ... Read more

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  • Society and Solitude

    This short text featured in Vol 1., No.2 of The Atlantic Monthly, a magazine founded in Boston in 1857.In this essay, the author discusses the notions of society, or association with other people, and solitude, or being alone. He praises the virtues of solitude, suggesting that private contemplation leads to enlightenment. The essay is representative of the Transcendentalist movement, a nineteenth ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Books of Spiritual Wisdom

    Enriched edition. The Age of Reason, As a Man Thinketh, The Holy Spirit…

    In 'The Greatest Books of Spiritual Wisdom', readers are offered an unparalleled anthology that traverses rich and varied theological terrains. This collection spans centuries and encapsulates a spectrum of spiritual discourse, showing an evolution of metaphysical thought from the rigor of Saint Augustine's confessions to the provoking queries of Nietzsche. The texts are chosen not only for ... Read more

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  • Essays 1

    Series series Read Forward Editions
    One might argue that not much has changed, when it comes to expressing one’s opinions, since 1841 (when Emerson’s Essays: First series has been published): those who have something to say will be heard, the world is still split between authors and readers, authors teach, readers listen and so on. I am not sure that Emerson, had he lived today, would agree to such an opinion. After all, web 2.0 was ... Read more

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