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Emerson The Mind on Fire

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ISBN-10: 0520206894

ISBN-13: 9780520206892

Edition: 1995

Authors: Robert D. Richardson, Barry Moser, Robert D. Richardson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, including correspondence among the Emerson brothers, Richardson gives us a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man. These pages present a young suitor, a grief-stricken widower, an affectionate father, and a man with an abiding genius…    
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Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/6/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 684
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.90" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

1996 Nobel Prize in Physics

BARRY MOSER is the prize-winning illustrator of many beautiful books for children and adults, including Harcourt's Telling Time with Big Mama Cat and Sit, Truman!, both co-illustrated by his daughter Cara Moser and written by Dan Harper. He has won the American Book Award and earned accolades from the American Library Association and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Mr. Moser lives in western Massachusetts.

Robert Richardson is an independent scholar who has taught at the University of Denver, Harvard University, and several other schools.