The texts of Nature, “The American Scholar,” “The Divinity School Address,” “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” and “Circles” are taken from the Centenary Edition, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1903–1904). The texts for “The Poet,” “Experience,” “Politics,” “Emancipation in the British West Indies,” “Woman,” “Thoreau,” and the poems are from the Riverside Edition, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883–1893). The texts of “The Uses of Great Men” and “Montaigne” are from the first (1850) edition of Representative Men. The text of the “Cherokee Letter” is from J. E. Cabot’s A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888). The text of “Pray without Ceasing” was used by permission of the Ralph Emerson Memorial Association and of the Houghton Library. The text of “Ethics” is from The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol 2, ed. S. F. Whicher et. al. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964).

Ask Your Bookseller for these Bantam Classics

ASK YOUR BOOKSELLER FOR THESE BANTAM CLASSICS

BEOWULF AND OTHER ENGLISH POEMS, 978-0-553-21347-8

THE BHAGAVAD-GITA: KRISHNA’S COUNSEL IN TIME OF WAR, 978-0-553-21365-2

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE and THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, 978-0-553-21482-6

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS, 978-0-553-21340-9

FOUR GREAT AMERICAN CLASSICS (THE SCARLET LETTER; THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN; THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE; BILLY BUDD, SAILOR), 978-0-553-21362-1

GREEK DRAMA, 978-0-553-21221-1

JO’S BOYS, Louisa May Alcott, 978-0-553-21449-9

LITTLE WOMEN, Louisa May Alcott, 978-0-553-21275-4

WINESBURG, OHIO, Sherwood Anderson, 978-0-553-21439-0

THE COMPLETE PLAYS, Aristophanes, 978-0-553-21343-0

EMMA, Jane Austen, 978-0-553-21273-0

MANSFIELD PARK, Jane Austen, 978-0-553-21276-1

NORTHANGER ABBEY, Jane Austen, 978-0-553-21197-9

PERSUASION, Jane Austen, 978-0-553-21137-5

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Jane Austen, 978-0-553-21310-2

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen, 978-0-553-21334-8

PETER PAN, J. M. Barrie, 978-0-553-21178-8

BRADBURY CLASSIC STORIES, Ray Bradbury, 978-0-553-28637-3

THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, Ray Bradbury, 978-0-553-27822-4

JANE EYRE, Charlotte Brontë, 978-0-553-21140-5

VILLETTE, Charlotte Brontë, 978-0-553-21243-3

WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Brontë, 978-0-553-21258-7

THE SECRET GARDEN, Frances Hodgson Burnett, 978-0-553-21201-3

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, Lewis Carroll, 978-0-553-21345-4

MY ÁNTONIA, Willa Cather, 978-0-553-21418-5

O PIONEERS!, Willa Cather, 978-0-553-21358-4

THE CANTERBURY TALES, Geoffrey Chaucer, 978-0-553-21082-8

STORIES, Anton Chekhov, 978-0-553-38100-9

THE AWAKENING, Kate Chopin, 978-0-553-21330-0

THE WOMAN IN WHITE, Wilkie Collins, 978-0-553-21263-1

HEART OF DARKNESS and THE SECRET SHARER, Joseph Conrad, 978-0-553-21214-3

LORD JIM, Joseph Conrad, 978-0-553-21361-4

THE DEERSLAYER, James Fenimore Cooper, 978-0-553-21085-9

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, James Fenimore Cooper, 978-0-553-21329-4

MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS AND OTHER SHORT FICTION, Stephen Crane, 978-0-553-21355-3