The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau (The Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson) [Kindle Edition]

Henry David Thoreau (Author), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), CC Web Press (Editor)

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Featuring:
- Over 20 authentic historical pictures and original covers
- Active table of contents
- Page breaks
- Year of works
- Biographies
- Custom cover art

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau Volume I, includes over 45 essays and works from the two of the most prominent American writers of the past. Included in this selection is Thoreau's masterpiece, Walden, which includes authentic pictures of Walden Pond. Walden is oft considered to be one of the greatest pieces of Naturalistic writing, and documents Thoreau's two year experiment in solitude. This selection is optimized for Kindle, with page breaks, active table of contents, custom cover, year of works, authentic photos, and author biographies.

Works included in this anthology.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON: Art, Character (with authentic cover), Circles, Compensation (with authentic cover), Concord Hymn, Divinity School Address (with Harvard sketching), English Traits (with authentic cover), Experience, Friendship (with authentic cover), Gifts, Heroism, History, Intellect (with authentic cover), Literary Ethics, Love, Man the Reformer, Manners, Nature, New England Reformers, Nominalist and Realist, Politics, Prudence (with authentic cover), Nature (with authentic cover), Representative Men (with authentic cover), Letters of Social Aims, Self-Reliance, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar (with authentic cover), The Conservative, The Method of Nature, The Over-Soul, The Poet, The Transcendentalist, The Young American, Conduct of Life (with authentic cover), English Traits (with authentic cover) Letter and Social Aims, and Society and Solitude (with authentic cover).

HENRY DAVID THOREAU:
An Excursion to Canada, A Plea for Captain John Brown (with authentic pictures), A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (with authentic cover), Autumnal Tints, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Night and Moonlight, Slavery in Massachusetts (with authentic pictures), The Highland Light, The Landlord, Walden (with pictures and original cover), Walking and Wild Apples

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 2994 KB
• Publisher: C&C Web Press (January 1, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002EL3SJI
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,025 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > World Literature > United States > Collections & Readers
  • #3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Government > Civics
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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK, but don't get for college courses, August 26, 2010

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R. W. Raab-Faber (Albuquerque) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau (The Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson) (Kindle Edition)

As mentioned, this IS NOT a complete collection. While there are very many important works in here, it doesn't have everything. If you are taking a college class, you might want to spend the extra few bucks for true complete editions.

Also, the essay titled "Nature" in this edition is NOT the essay from "Nature; Addresses and Lectures."

That said, I don't necessarily feel like the $1.99 was a waste, but I do feel like I was a little hoodwinked by the title. This is not the first purported "Complete" works collection I've bought for my Kindle that turned out to be incomplete.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars VERY Misleadingly Titled, December 17, 2010

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William Cronon (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau (The Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson) (Kindle Edition)

This Kindle title keeps coming up when I do Amazon searches, and I keep being tempted to purchase it because I would love to have on my Kindle what it purports to contain but does not. I wish Amazon would take more responsibility in policing misleading products like this one. Whatever the merits of this ebook, would-be customers should understand that it is deeply mistitled. Emerson and Thoreau produced large, deep bodies of writing, and this ebook does not REMOTELY include anything like the "Complete Works" of either author. Caveat emptor!!

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great content / Decent Kindle File, September 7, 2009

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J. Orcutt (Washington State University) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau (The Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson) (Kindle Edition)

I am mostly trying to rate the content of the kindle file with this review. The content is obviously fantastic on a literary level. The kindle file is basic but complete with working table of contents. This is worth every penny and then some.