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10 best books like Selected Essays (Ralph Waldo Emerson): Work: A Story of Experience, After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America, White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War, The Maine Woods (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau), The Sound of Mountain Water, Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs, On a Theatre of Marionettes, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I, Augustine: A New Biography, Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII

Work: A Story of Experience
AuthorLouisa May Alcott
Alcott's concerns about social justice, women's work, domesticity, and community lie at the heart of this provocative novel.
In this story of a woman's search for a meaningful life, Alcott moves outside the family setting of her best known works. Originally published in 1872, Work is both an exploration...
After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
AuthorE.C. Pielou
ISBN0226668126
A world building book. Pielou's world is vast, complex, and filled with, sometimes surprising, concepts and images. One of those books to read in segments of time, between other reading materials. Quotes later ....

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Here be table of contents:

"Part One - Preliminaries"
Chapter...
White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN1598180703
"White Jacket" written by Herman Melville (best known for his classic whaling novel) was first published in 1850 and is considered to be a semi-biographical book, written from Melville's own personal experiences while returning home to the Atlantic Coast from the South Seas with the American Navy...
The Maine Woods (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
AuthorHenry David Thoreau
ISBN0691118779
Qui décrira la douceur indicible et la vie immortelle de cette austère forêt, où la Nature, même au coeur de l'hiver, est toujours à son printemps, où les arbres couverts de mousse et en état de décomposition ne sont pas vieux mais semblent dotés d'une jeunesse éternelle : et la Nature bienheureuse...
The Sound of Mountain Water
AuthorWallace Stegner
ISBN0140266747
A book of timeless importance about the American West, our "native home of hope."

The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner...
Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs
AuthorSue Hubbell
ISBN0679400621
Hubbell channels Rachel Carson in this wonderful wandering through the bug world. She's environmentally conscious & given to almost poetic maundering about them, from the prettiest to the nastiest. Some passages would be almost pornographic out of context, but it's all good & very interesting....
On a Theatre of Marionettes
AuthorHeinrich von Kleist
ISBN0902015265
Kleist's essay about dolls/puppets/marionette theatre (depends on what translation you're looking at) is one of my favorite writings EVER. it's short and crisp. though i did like the translation in the "Kleist Collected Works" more. here's an online translation, the one cited above is better:

http://www.southerncrossreview.org/9/...

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Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I
AuthorThomas Malory
ISBN1401307809
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
Augustine: A New Biography
AuthorJames J. O'Donnell
ISBN0060535377
O'Donnell, provost at Georgetown University and editor of the definitive edition of Augustine's Confessions, is admirably qualified to chronicle the life of the man who wrote history's most famous autobiography. But in this book, suffused with the methods (though thankfully not the tortured vocabulary)...
Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII
AuthorPlato
ISBN0140442758
In the Phaedrus Plato(427-347 B.C.) is concerned with establishing the principles of rhetoric. Through the mouths of Socrates and Phaedrus he argues that rhetoric is only acceptable as an art when it is firmly based on the truth inspired by love, the common experience of true philosophic activity....
Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN1571313001
Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles the efforts of three caring communities to preserve wilderness and reverse environmental devastation. They include the reforestation of McKibben’s home territory, New York’s Adirondack Mountains; solving traffic and pollution...
Psychology: The Briefer Course
AuthorWilliam James
ISBN0486416046
William James’s monumental Principles of Psychology has long been on my to-read list. But I have a nasty habit of letting books scare me; and a 1,400-page textbook from 1890 was sufficiently intimidating to make me put it off indefinitely.

To warm up to the task, I decided to read a couple...
A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham
AuthorSteve Kemper
ISBN0393353907
Frederick Russell Burnham’s (1861–1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous friend Theodore Roosevelt into a listener, Burnham was once world-famous as “the American scout.” His expertise in woodcraft,...
Great Sonnets
AuthorPaul Negri
ISBN0486280527
Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?", Milton's "On His Blindness," Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," many more by Spenser, Sidney, Blake, Byron, Coleridge,...
The Portable Machiavelli
AuthorNiccolò Machiavelli
ISBN0140150927
Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but also strives to do away with many of the myths that have plagued the man's posthumous fame. For example,...
Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar
AuthorRob Goodman
ISBN0312681232
The first biography of the final man to stand against Caesar—whose principles and defiance became a rallying cry for future revolutions

He was Rome’s bravest statesman, an aristocratic soldier who slept on the ground with his troops, a Stoic philosopher and staunch defender of the...
The Thomas Paine Reader
AuthorThomas Paine
ISBN0140444963
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737—1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key...
Selected Essays
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN0192836218
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.

As seen in these...
Collected Lyrics
AuthorEdna St. Vincent Millay
ISBN0060908637
Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1923, and when she published one of her collections, "Huntsman, What Quarry " it made the bestseller list. Can you imagine a book of poetry on the bestseller list today? I have always loved her poetry and it was fun to reread the old favorites and discover some...
The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems
AuthorJim Harrison
ISBN1556590954
Astonishing poetry collection. One of the few poets that I read cover to cover and then again few more times, untill I know each poem by heart.

Looking Forward to Age

I will walk down to a marina
on a hot day and not go out to sea.

I will go to bed and get up early,
and carry...
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0684835096
Passage From Book:

Personal ethics involves the drawing of lines: I will go as far as this boundary, here, but I will not go beyond. I will defend myself against physical menace but only pacifically. I will fight if attacked but I won't kill. I will kill if my family is threatened but I won't aggress....
Brand
AuthorHenrik Ibsen
ISBN1406790109
Brand is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is a verse tragedy, written in 1865 and first performed in Stockholm, Sweden on 24 March 1867. Brand was an intellectual play that provoked much original thought.
Brand is a priest who wants to take consequence of his choices, and is therefore...
Jim Bridger: Mountain Man
AuthorStanley Vestal
ISBN0803257201
Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn't write his name, but at eighteen he had braved the fury of the Missouri, ascending it in a keelboat flotilla commanded by that stalwart Mike Fink....
The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche
AuthorMonroe C. Beardsley
ISBN0375758046
“Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing,” Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. “If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it can at least...
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