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10 best books like Selected Writings (Ralph Waldo Emerson): Work: A Story of Experience, Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings, On Grief and Reason: Essays, Melville: His World and Work, The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche, Selected Tales and Sketches, The Mentor Book of Major American Poets, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Selected Prose, Postcolonial Melancholia

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...
Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
AuthorMatsuo Bashō
ISBN1570627169
Here is the most complete single-volume collection of the writings of one of the great luminaries of Asian literature. Basho (1644–1694)—who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior,...
On Grief and Reason: Essays
AuthorJoseph Brodsky
ISBN0374525099
On Grief and Reason is the second volume of Joseph Brodsky's essays, and the first to be published since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987. In addition to his Nobel lecture, the volume includes essays on the condition of exile, the nature of history, the art of reading, and the idea of...
Melville: His World and Work
AuthorAndrew Delbanco
ISBN0375702970
If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded...
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...
Selected Tales and Sketches
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected...
The Mentor Book of Major American Poets
AuthorOscar Williams
ISBN0451627911
Many of the poets are great, and all have at least one or two great poems as well as at least a couple more worth reading, but much of this anthology was a slog for me.

I love Dickinson, and Whitman, and Pound, Stevens, Cummings, and Auden. I got my first taste of a selection of several of the poets,...
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
AuthorMargaret Fuller
ISBN0486406628
A woman of many gifts, Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) is most aptly remembered as America's first true feminist. In her brief yet fruitful life, she was variously author, editor, literary and social critic, journalist, poet, and revolutionary. She was also one of the few female members of the prestigious...
Selected Prose
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0156806541
Thirty-one essays-categorized as “essays in generalization,” “appreciations of individual authors,” and “social and religious criticism”- written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliot’s original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill and grace in language. Edited...
Postcolonial Melancholia
AuthorPaul Gilroy
In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing...
Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of the Synoptic Gospels, NRSV
AuthorBurton H. Throckmorton Jr.
ISBN0840774842
In Walter Wink's "Introduction to the Christian Scriptures" class at Union Theological Seminary in New York we were assigned the task of going through the four canonical gospels, magic markers in hand, noting the parallels that existed between two or more of the texts in the Revised Standard Version...
Prejudices: A Selection
AuthorH.L. Mencken
ISBN0801853419
In six volumes of "Prejudices" published between 1919 and 1927, H.L. Mencken collected some of the best essays he ever wrote and established the style that made him a titan of the free press. Thirty years later, James T. Farrell, Mencken's friend and the author of the "Studs Lonigan" trilogy, read again...
Peace, Love and Healing: Bodymind Communication the Path to Self-Healing: An Exploration
AuthorBernie S. Siegel
ISBN0060917059
A classic of patient empowerment, Peace, Love & Healing offered the revolutionary message that we have an innate ability to heal ourselves. Now proven by numerous scientific studies, the connection between our minds and our bodies has been increasingly accepted as fact throughout the mainstream...
The Portable Thoreau
AuthorHenry David Thoreau
ISBN0140150315
Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends’ advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner...
A Presocratics Reader
AuthorPatricia Curd
ISBN0872203263
"What are the Isles of the Blest? Sun and Moon. What is the oracle at Delphi? The tetractys, which is the harmony in which the Sirens sing."
Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras


This is a brilliant but compact collection of Presocratic thought. If you haven't yet read much of the early philosophers...
The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
AuthorThomas Jefferson
ISBN0143121960
In time for the upcoming election season, Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution, draws together...
The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
AuthorGeorge Orwell
ISBN0156701766
Here is Orwell’s work in all its remarkable range and variety. The selections in this anthology show how Orwell developed as writer and as thinker; inevitably, too, they reflect and illuminate the history of the time of troubles in which he lived and worked. “A magnificent tribute to the probity,...
The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations
AuthorRobert Nozick
ISBN0671725017
One of this century’s most original philosophical thinkers, Nozick brilliantly renews Socrates’s quest to uncover the life that is worth living. In brave and moving meditations on love, creativity, happiness, sexuality, parents and children, the Holocaust, religious faith, politics, and...
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions From Great Philosophers
AuthorLeszek Kołakowski
Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? There are questions that have intrigued the world's great thinkers over the ages, which still touch a chord...
On Liberty and The Subjection of Women
AuthorJohn Stuart Mill
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of liberalism, his great work On Liberty argues...
The Portable Steinbeck
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN0140150021
He wrote about poor people struggling to survive and about dispossessed people grappling for a piece of land they could call their own. He wrote about inarticulate men groping to express truths “locked in wordlessness.” He wrote about America—the land and the people—as though it were one...
Essais 1
AuthorMichel de Montaigne
ISBN2080702106
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
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