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5) Walt Whitman
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English
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An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet.
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English
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"A comprehensive collection of writings by "the most influential writer of the nineteenth century" (Harold Bloom) Ralph Waldo Emerson's diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman were among Emerson's admirers and proteges, while his central text, Nature, singlehandedly engendered an entire spiritual and...
12) The portable Russian reader: a collection newly translated from classical and present-day authors
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Pub. Date
1947
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xi, 658 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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English
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The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors. There are some stories new to the Portable, "Such a Pretty Little Picture," along with a selection of articles written for such disparate publications as Vogue, McCall's, House and Garden, and New Masses. At the heart of her serious work lies her political writings racial, labor,...