The Conduct of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Conduct of Life" by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a collection of essays published in 1860. In nine interconnected essays, Emerson tackles the central question of his era: "How shall I live?" Drawing from lectures delivered across America's expanding frontier towns, he explores practical matters of power, wealth, and behavior while wrestling with deeper tensions between fate and freedom, individual will and cosmic necessity. This work influenced writers including Nietzsche and sparked fierce debate—praised as Emerson's best by some, dismissed as repetitive by others. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Creator Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Title The Conduct of Life
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conduct_of_Life
Contents Fate -- Power -- Wealth -- Culture -- Behavior -- Worship -- Considerations by the way -- Beauty -- Illusions.
Credits Produced by Al Haines
Reading Level Reading ease score: 66.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Conduct of life
Category Text
eBook-No. 39827
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Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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