Emerson's Essays: First & Second Series Complete in One Volume (Softcover)

Introduction by Irwin Edman

These essays contain his most important writing and radiate with sensitivity and wonder. Here Emerson's prose shows him to be both a vigorous thinker and profound mystic, a man of exquisite feeling combined with stern moral fiber.

Emerson's best works were done between 1836 and 1860, a period which includes his famous essays.