Essays, First Series: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Essays, First Series, credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Essays, First Series, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the public domain. The LibriVox catalog page for this work lists the LibriVox readers. "We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul". (From Essay 9, 'The Over-Soul') For more information on LibriVox, or to volunteer, please see: http://librivox.org/

Recording facts

• Recording title: Essays, First Series
• Author credits: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 8:28:33

Catalogue topics

• essay
• transcendentalism

Track guide

1. 01 - History — 56:21
2. 02 - Self-Reliance — 1:07:12
3. 03 - Compensation — 56:24
4. 04 - Spiritual Laws — 51:28
5. 05 - Love — 27:16
6. 06 - Friendship — 43:08
7. 07 - Prudence — 32:10
8. 08 - Heroism — 31:56
9. 09 - The Over-Soul — 50:35
10. 10 - Circles — 35:13
11. 11 - Intellect — 31:06
12. 12 - Art — 25:50

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