Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803–1882

1 series 1 book in order

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century, expressed in his 1836 essay Nature. His 1837 speech The American Scholar was called America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. His central doctrine, in his own words, was "the infinitude of the private man."

Born: 1803
Known for: Harvard Classics

Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Harvard Classics

26 books in order · 1882–1999

On the origin of species by means of natural selection

1882 · Charles Darwin

This 1909 volume presents Charles Darwin's seminal work laying the foundations for the principles of evolutionary biology via natural selection,…
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Virgil's Æneid

1909 · Publius Vergilius Maro

Virgil's Æneid is a 1909 book by Publius Vergilius Maro. It is part of the series Harvard Classics.
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Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero, with his Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

1909 · Cicero

Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero, with his Treatises on Friendship and Old Age is a 1909 book by Cicero, Pliny the Younger. It is part of the series…
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Nine Greek Dramas

1909 · Aeschylus

Nine Greek Dramas is a 1909 book by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes. It is part of the series Harvard Classics.
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Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, and Coriolanus, Demosthenes, and Cicero, Cæsar and Antony

1909 · Plutarch

Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, and Coriolanus, Demosthenes, and Cicero, Cæsar and Antony is a 1909 book by…
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Stories from The Thousand and One Nights

1909
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The Apology, Phædo, and Crito of Plato

1909 · Πλάτων

The Apology, Phædo, and Crito of Plato is a 1909 book by Πλάτων, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius. It is part of the series Harvard Classics.
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The Confessions of St. Augustine

1909 · Augustine of Hippo

The Confessions of St. Augustine is a 1909 book by Augustine of Hippo, Thomas à Kempis. It is part of the series Harvard Classics.
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The Odyssey

1999 · Όμηρος

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, and in part a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to him. It…
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