Essays, Second Series: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Essays, Second 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.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Essays, Second Series, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Read by Bob Neufeld. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Essays, Second Series
• Author credits: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 6:34:59

Catalogue topics

• emerson
• essays

Track guide

1. 1 - The Poet — 59:49
2. 2 - Experience — 1:00:25
3. 3 - Character — 39:36
4. 4 - Manners — 54:23
5. 5 - Gifts — 10:16
6. 6 - Nature — 44:08
7. 7 - Politics — 36:05
8. 8 - Nominalist and Realist — 37:29
9. 9 - New England Reformers — 52:57

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