Nature and Selected Essays
Through 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, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has...
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Introduction 7\ Suggestions for Further Reading 29\ A Note on the Text 31\ Essays\ \ Nature 1836 35\ The American Scholar 1837 83\ An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge 1838 107\ Man the Reformer 1841 129\ History (Essays, First Series) 1841 149\ Self-Reliance (Essays, First Series) 1841 175\ The Over-Soul (Essays, First Series) 1841 205\ Circles (Essays, First Series) 1841 225\ The Transcendentalist 1842 239\ The Poet (Essays, Second Series) 1844 259\ Experience (Essays, Second Series) 1844 285\ Montaigne; Or, the Skeptic (Representative Men) 1850 313\ Napoleon; Or, the Man of the World (Representative Men) 1850 337\ Fate (The Conduct of Life) 1860 361\ Thoreau 1862 393\
\ Library JournalTo assist the Nature Conservancy's "Plant a Billion Trees Campaign," which aims to put the trees in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, Penguin is rereleasing a handful of nature classics.\ \ —Michael Rogers\ \
