The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson , Mary Oliver , Brooks Atkinson
3.81
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell…
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1. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.02
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love… read more
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"It is epokhe all the way."-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have…"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"Some might question whether there is still any need for an essayist such as Montaigne. Twenty-first century people, in the developed world, are already individualistic to excess, as well as entwined …"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
"The trick is to maintain a kind of naïve amazement at each instant of experience - but, as Montaigne learned, one of the best techniques for doing this is to write about everything. Simply describing…"-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
2. The Minister's Black Veil
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.73
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope. The old pe… read more
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"The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial-stone is mossgrown, and good Mr. Hooper’s face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the black…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
"Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and jo…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
3. The Works of William Wordsworth
By: William Wordsworth
4.16
Format: 906 pages, Paperback
William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influence… read more
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" She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden fr…"-William Wordsworth, The Works of William Wordsworth
"Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind I turned to share the transport—Oh! with whom But thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find? Love, faithful love, recalled t…"-William Wordsworth, The Works of William Wordsworth
" Lucy Gray Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray, And when I cross'd the Wild, I chanc'd to see at break of day The solitary Child. No Mate, no comrade Lucy knew; She dwelt on a wild Moor, The sweetest Thing …"-William Wordsworth, The Works of William Wordsworth
4. Walking
By: Henry David Thoreau
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
The philosophies of HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)-hero to environmentalists and ecologists, profo… read more
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5. Benito Cereno
By: Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
"What has cast such a shadow upon you?" "The Negro." With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, an… read more
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6. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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7. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important… read more
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8. Discourses and Selected Writings
By: Epictetus , Robert F. Dobbin , Robert Dobbin
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN in… read more
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9. The Trouble with Being Born
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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10. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
11. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
12. Complete Works
By: Plato , Benjamin Jowett , Jonathan Barnes , Anthony Kenny , None , Stanley Lombardo , Paul Woodruff , Brad Inwood , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper , C.D.C. Reeve , Alexander Nehamas , Nicholas P. White , Donald J. Zeyl , David Gallop , Nicholas D. Smith , D.S. Hutchinson , None , Rosamond Kent Sprague , Karen Bell , None , Diskin Clay , None , None , None , None , None , None , Mary Louise Gill , None , None , None , None , None , Paul Ryan
3.86
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
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13. Walden and Other Writings
By: Peter Matthiessen , Henry David Thoreau
4.26
Format: None pages,
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14. The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson , Mary Oliver , Brooks Atkinson
3.81
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell… read more
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15. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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16. Civil Disobedience
By: Henry David Thoreau
3.80
Format: None pages,
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17. Young Goodman Brown
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
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18. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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19. Walden & Civil Disobedience
By: Henry David Thoreau , W.S. Merwin
3.23
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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20. The Birthmark
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
The main character is a great scientist and lover of nature with a beautiful wife whom he loves dea… read more
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21. The Denial of Death
By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen
4.32
Format: 80 pages,
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more
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