Philosophy

Representative Men

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson’s lectures on six great men, Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Napoleon and Goethe, published in 1850. He gave them in Boston while Thoreau was living at the pond, and again in England in 1847 and 1848. While he was away, Thoreau kept house for his family.

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Reading time

About 3 hr 55 min

Where to find it

Walden Pond

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #6312. In the public domain in the United States.