American

This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908–1946 of Booker T. Washing...

Four well-known actresses read these poems by one of the greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particular...

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the nineteenth century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce – w...

Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the nineteenth/twentieth centuries are represented here. Different in atmosp...

Noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days chronicling his near-isolation in the small cabin he bu...

First published in 1849, this essay argues that individuals have rights and duties in relation to their government. Motivated by his disgust ...

The Gettysburg Address, delivered by Lincoln on November 19, 1863 in the aftermath of a narrow, bloody Union victory at the Battle of Gettysb...

In Gifts Ralph Waldo Emerson muses on the function of and expectations surrounding the giving of gifs. He touches on what gifts communicate a...

In Manners, Ralph Waldo Emerson expounds on the meaning of customs and politeness in civil society. He argues that the purpose of manners is ...

In The Poet, an essay by U.S. writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author expresses the need for the United States to have its own new and unique ...

This version of Nature is an 1843 revision to the popular essay written and published in 1836. In the original essay, Emerson put forth the f...

Circles is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841. The essay reflects on the vast array of circles one may find throughout ...

Emerson's treatise on the nature of friendship. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Building on and enriching ideas set forth in Self-Reliance, Emerson argues that true heroism is self-confidence and persistency in the face o...

The essay on Prudence was given as a lecture in a course on Human Culture, in the winter of 1837-8. It was published in the first series of E...

Emerson's discourse on the laws of compensation, takes on the notion that one who has money must be wicked and those who do not must be good,...

The American Scholar was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. Emerson argues that...

The Extraordinary Manifesto of Independent Living -Newly Abridged and Introduced in this Powerful Condensation Self-Reliance is a life-chang...