You don't have to be a 19th Century New England transcendentalist to appreciate Ralph Waldo Emerson. He didn't prefer that designation either, though credited as the movement's founder. This book was instrumental in steering one 15-year-old to a lifelong appreciation and constant pusuit of classic literature and whatever we can call a distinctively American philosophy. Ummm... that was me, 1978.
Open up Emerson's Essays to any page, and put your finger on any single sentence. You'll have an entire sermon at your fingertip which you can apply--or merely ponder.
--Tom Field
Review #2
Kindle users avoid this version
Though it's only a few dollars, the Kindle version of this must-have book does not include a table of contents! Unless you want to read the 1000 page book from cover to cover, avoid this version.
Review #3
About the Heritage Press Edition in Slipcase
An edition with an excellent pedigree.
The Heritage Press edition of the Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The First Series and The Second Series bears the spine title "Heritage Anniversary Edition."
One of the largest volumes ever produced by Heritage. Based on the original designs of master printer John Henry Nash, it derived its style from a Nicolas Jensen 1478 edition of Plutarch! Thus we have a 20th century book composed like a piece from the Renaissance with two color printing and a large 18 point Cloister Lightface, an elegant and "mellow" typeface derived from a Jensen design. Really, quite an impressive and distinctive interior.
In a red slipcase. Bound in tan buckram at the spine with red and gold details, three-quarters green and tan marbled French paper. Red page edges, 262 pp in a sewn binding.
