emerson, ralph waldo

Includes life and background of the author, chronology of Emerson's life, critical commentaries, critical essays, review questions and essay topics, and selected bibliography.

Traces the events revolving around the trial of an escaped slave who was arrested and returned to Virginia under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

Compiles the prose and poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson accompanied by annotations, color illustrations, and archival photographs.

A selection of writings by nineteenth-century American philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, including essays, lectures, and poems.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of an elite group of literary geniuses secretly working on America's first translation of "The Divine Comedy" in 1865, puts his career on the line when he teams up with outcast police officer Nicholas Rey in an attempt to find a killer who is patterning his crimes on descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's "Inferno.".