Vol. 7 — October 2026
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

This selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's prose was edited by Edna H.

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This selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's prose was edited by Edna H. L. Turpin for Merrill's English Texts, a series intended for schools and colleges, and published in New York in 1907. An introduction offers a life of Emerson, critical opinions of his work and a chronological list of his writings. The eleven pieces are The American Scholar, Compensation, Self-Reliance, Friendship, Heroism, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Shakespeare; or, the Poet, Prudence and Circles, drawn from his addresses, both series of Essays and Representative Men. Explanatory notes follow the texts.

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