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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society and Solitude (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) [EPUB ebook]

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This 1870 collection of essays was drawn from Emerson’s lectures delivered over the previous twelve years. The title essay features Emerson’s defense of solitude against the demands of society. Among the other works included are ‚Civilization, ‚ ‚Art, ‚ ‚Eloquence, ‚ ‚Domestic Life, ‚ ‚Works and Days, ‚ and ‚Old Age.‘

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet. Along with such figures as Henry Thoreau and Margaret Fuller, he was an originator and, through the magazine The Dial, popularizer of the Transcendentalist movement. In essays like ‚Self-Reliance, ‚ he championed a distinctly American brand of individualism.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 308 ● ISBN 9781411441552 ● Dateigröße 0.3 MB ● Alter 99-17 Jahre ● Verlag Barnes & Noble ● Erscheinungsjahr 2011 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 5862972 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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