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New York : Literary Classics of the U.S. : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, c1983.
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LibraryThing member tgraettinger
Some of the essays I really love, others not so much. I do find the language difficult - or maybe "hard to parse" would be a better description. But for the best of the essays, it's worth the struggle. The others make good reading when I can't sleep.
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Essays & lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Hardcover)
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