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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Representative Men (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) [EPUB ebook]

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This collection of essays, published in 1850, features Emerson’s thoughts and reflections on such eminent men of history as Plato, Swedenborg, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Napoleon, and Goethe, and includes the essay ‘Uses of Great Men.’

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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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 410 ● ISBN 9781411435797 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Age 99-17 years ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5862564 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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