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Centenary Edition

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Volume I - Nature, Addresses & Lectures

Nature: Introduction

I. Nature

II. Commodity

III. Beauty

IV. Language

V. Discipline

VI. Idealism

VII. Spirit

VIII. Prospects

The American Scholar

Divinity School Address

Literary Ethics

The Method of Nature

Man the Reformer

Introductory Lecture on the Times

The Conservative

The Transcendentalist

The Young American

Volume II - Essays I

I. History

II. Self-Reliance

III. Compensation

IV. Spiritual Laws

V. Love

VI Friendship

VII. Prudence

VIII Heroism

IX. The Over-Soul

X. Circles

XI. Intellect

XII. Art

Volume III - Essays II

I The Poet

II Experience

III Character

IV Manners

V Gifts

VI Nature

VII Politics

VIII Nominalist and Realist

IX New England Reformers

Volume IV - Representative Men

Uses of Great Men

Plato; or, the Philosopher

Swedenborg; or, the Mystic

Montaigne; or, the Skeptic

Shakspeare; or, the Poet

Napoleon; or, the Man of the World

Goethe; or, the Writer

Volume V - English Traits

I First Visit to England

II Voyage to England

III Land

IV Race

V Ability

VI Manners

VII Truth

VIII Character

IX Cockayne

X Wealth

XI Aristocracy

XII Universities

XIII Religion

XIV Literature

XV The "Times"

XVI Stonehenge

XVII Personal

XVIII Result

XIX Speech at Manchester

Volume VI - Conduct of Life

I Fate

II Power

III Wealth

IV Culture

V Behavior

VI Worship

VII Considerations by the Way

VIII Beauty

IX Illusions

Volume VII - Society and Solitude

I Society and Solitude

II Civilization

III Art

IV Eloquence

V Domestic Life

VI Farming

VII Works and Days

VIII Books

IX Clubs

X Courage

XI Success

XII Old Age

Volume VIII - Letters and Social Aims

Poetry and Imagination

Social Aims

Eloquence

Resources

The Comic

Quotation and Originality

Progress of Culture

Persian Poetry

Inspiration

Greatness

Immortality

Volume IX - Poems

Volume X - Lectures and Biographical Sketches

Demonology

Aristocracy

Perpetual Forces

Character

Education

The Superlative

The Sovereignty of Ethics

The Preacher

The Man of Letters

The Scholar

Plutarch

Life and Letters in New England

Ezra Ripley, D. D.

Chardon Street Convention

Mary Moody Emerson

Samuel Hoar

Thoreau

Carlyle

George L. Stearns

Volume XI - Miscellanies

I The Lord's Supper

II Historical Discourse at Concord

III Letter to President Van Buren

IV Emancipation in the British West Indies

V War

VI The Fugitive Slave Law

VIII The Assault Upon Mr. Sumner

IX Speech on Affairs in Kansas

X John Brown--Speech at Boston

XI John Brown--Speech at Salem

XII Theodore Parker

XIII American Civilization

XIV The Emancipation Proclamation

XV Abraham Lincoln

XVI Harvard Commeroration Speech

XVII Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument in Concord

XVIII Editors' Address

XIX Address to Kossuth

XX Woman

XXI Consecration of Sleepy Hollow Cemetary

XXII Robert Burns

XXIII Shakespeare

XXIV Humboldt

XXV Walter Scott

XXVI Speech at Banquet in Honor of Chinese Embassy

XXVII Remarks at Organization of Free Religious Association

XXVIII Speech at Second Annual Meeting of Free Religion

XXIX Address at Opening of Concord Free Public Library

XXX The Fortune of the Republic

Volume XII - Natural History of the Intellect and Other Papers

Natural History of Intellect
The Celebration of Intellect
Country Life
Concord Walks
Michael Angelo
Boston
Milton
Art and Criticism

Papers from the Dial

I. Thoughts on Modern Literature

II. Walter Savage Landor

III. Prayers

IV. Agriculture of Massachusetts

V. Europe and European Books

VI. Past and Present

VII. A Letter

VIII. The Tragic

Later Lectures

Lecture on Slavery

American Civilization

The Powers and Laws of Thought

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