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Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I'm a long-time buyer of Amazon's products, but lately I am seeing that they may have a quality control problem! The book "Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson", published by Kessinger (ISBN: 1425341438) does not deserve more than one star, although there are other Emerson compilations (including the Modern Library Classics version with the same title) that are undoubtedly fine.

Amazon seems to have a strange methodology/algorithm for placing some of its books first in "relevance", and I am a little suspicious as to what criteria they are using. Furthermore, you may have noticed that the specific reviews of books now are often reviews of a different printing/edition than the one listed along with said reviews.

At any rate, the Kessinger "booklet" is a thin,cheaply made, 60 page paperback that includes short excerpts of a few of Emerson's writings, and is hardly more than a xerox-type copy, sandwiched within a glossy cover....

Not only that, but the Modern Library Classics' version costs less than the inferior Kessinger printing...

This book contains an article from "The American Bible: Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings Part 12". It is in no way a useful collection of Emerson's writings, and is completely useless to me.

If want a large collection of Emerson's writings, get the Modern Library Classics version of Emerson's Essential writings. The ISBN is 9780679783220.

this was a let-down, as the cover and the book did not match, and so I never had the book I needed for class.

It is NOT a collection of Emerson works. It is a reprint of a single essay. One of the reviews says it's 850 pages long (it's actually 64) and I think it's the victim of a clerical error at Amazon. It's being mailed right back to them.

I looked at the book, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It had the essays I wanted, and an introduction by Mary Oliver. Then I saw it was availble on CD. I went to the CD purchace page, saw the reviews of the same material as I saw on the book pages. So I order the audio CD. It turns out the CD has less than a tenth of the contents of the book, no Mary Olviver introduction and none of the essays I had originally wanted. For twice the price of the book, I was very dissapointed!