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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. NEW First Edition LOA hardcover (Orig. 2010) Second Printing: NEW mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners * 5.12" X 8.12" X 1.18", 0.70 kg, xiv+1026 (1042) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. Yet his most remarkable literary creation--his journals--remained unpublished. Begun when he was a precocious Harvard junior of 16 & continued w/o significant lapse for almost 60 years, Emerson's journals were his life's work. They were the starting point for virtually everything in his celebrated essays, lectures, & poems; a "Savings Bank," in which his occasional insights began to cohere & yield interest; a commonplace book, in which he gathered the choicest anecdotes, ideas, & phrases from his voracious & wide-ranging reading; & a fascinating diary in the ordinary sense of the term. It would be 100 yrs after his death before these intimate records would appear in print in their entirety, and they are still, at over 3,000,000 words, among the least known & least available of Emerson's writings. The journals reveal what Emerson called "the infinitude of the private man"--by turns whimsical, incisive, passionate, curious, & candid-in astonishing new ways.W/ "Selected Journals 1841-1877" & its companion volume Selected Journals 1820-1842, The Library of America presents the most ample & comprehensive nonspecialist edition of Emerson's great work ever published--one that retains the original order in which he composed his thoughts & preserves the dramatic range of his unique style in long, uninterrupted passages, but w/o the daunting critical apparatus of the 16-volume scholarly edition. Ea. volume includes a 16-page portfolio of images of Emerson & his contemporaries, a note on the selections, extensive notes, biographical sketches, a chronology, & an index.This volume opens w/ an Emerson at the height of his powers, soon to write his celebrated essays "Experience" & "Self-Reliance," & in the midst of a vibrant intellectual circle. It follows his anguished reactions to the nation's intensifying political turmoil--his anger at the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, his antislavery activism, & his day-to-day experience of the Civil War (including a wartime trip to Washington, D.C., where he met President Lincoln). This major new volume offers a wide selection of works from Emerson's lectures & essays, including some that have seldom been reprinted such as "Quotation & Originality". In addition, leading Emerson critic Richard Poirier provides helpful annotations to a generous selection of poems, making this the most accessible edition of Emerson currently available. * LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, & keeping permanently in print, America's best & most significant writing. The Library of America series includes many hundreds of volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, & ribbon markers, & are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for an additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.…