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Featured Article: 35+ Quotes About Books That Truly Speak to Bibliophiles
Novels, memoirs, short stories, essay compilations, and more continue to shape who we are and how we view the world, no matter what format—physical book, ebook, or audiobook—we use to absorb and enjoy them. Books are pathways into different worlds and different lives, and one can never be truly bored with a good book. Celebrate your literary love with these quotes about books that will inspire you to dive into your next story.
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Love
- Essays - First Series
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 30 mins
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Love, for Emerson, is neither simple nor sweet. It is a force—wild, untamable, and yet profoundly human. In Love, he explores the deep currents that pull...
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Love
- Essays - First Series
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 04-10-25
- Language: English
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Self-Reliance
- The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mitch Horowitz - Abridged and Introduced by
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 48 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 68
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Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience - its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living....
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Quick and Refreshing
- By Melissa on 03-06-25
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Self-Reliance
- The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher
- Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
- Length: 48 mins
- Release date: 12-08-17
- Language: English
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, the American Scholar and Other Essays
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen, Peter Coates
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Emerson's enduring reputation, however, is as a philosopher, an aphoristic writer (like Friedrich Nietzsche) and a quintessentially American thinker whose...
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nature, Self-Reliance, Compensation, the American Scholar and Other Essays
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen, Peter Coates
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 01-23-25
- Language: English
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75+ Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection - Collected Essays, Poems, Speeches
- Self-Reliance, Nature, the Conduct of Life, Compensation, the American Scholar, May-Day and Other Pieces, Elements and Mottoes, Brahma, Days, the Snow-Storm, Concord Hymn and Others
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen, Peter Coates
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th...
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75+ Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection - Collected Essays, Poems, Speeches
- Self-Reliance, Nature, the Conduct of Life, Compensation, the American Scholar, May-Day and Other Pieces, Elements and Mottoes, Brahma, Days, the Snow-Storm, Concord Hymn and Others
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen, Peter Coates
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-23-25
- Language: English
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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In this definitive collection of essays, including the poignant title essay "Self-Reliance," Ralph Waldo Emerson expounds on the importance of trusting your soul....
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This book is like a series of great quotes!
- By M. Allen on 01-16-19
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-29-17
- Language: English
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The Transcendentalist
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Eddie Frierson
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is a paradoxical figure in American society. He represents the height of individualism and blazing one's own path, but during his lifetime his views were considered radical....
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A balanced consideration
- By Logan on 02-22-22
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The Transcendentalist
- Narrated by: Eddie Frierson
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 09-29-16
- Language: English
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Self-Reliance
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Filibooks Narration (Daniel)
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" is a seminal essay that explores the importance of individualism and personal integrity. Emerson challenges listeners to avoid conformity and follow their own instincts and ideas.
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Self-Reliance
- Narrated by: Filibooks Narration (Daniel)
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-25-24
- Language: English
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Nature
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Richard Stibbard
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson, narrated by Richard Stibbard, is a foundational work of transcendentalist philosophy that explores the profound connection between humanity and the natural world.
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Nature
- Narrated by: Richard Stibbard
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-31-24
- Language: English
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The Over-Soul
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Robin Haynes
- Length: 45 mins
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In his essay The Over-Soul, Ralph Waldo Emerson outlines his belief in a God that resides in each of us and whom we can communicate with, without membership in a church or the assistance of an intermediary church official....
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the soul of man(woman)
- By DR. Mckinley on 05-29-22
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The Over-Soul
- Narrated by: Robin Haynes
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 02-01-19
- Language: English
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The Philosophy Collection
- Meditations; The Book of Five Rings; Self Reliance; Beyond Good and Evil; Fear and Trembling; The Art of War; The Enchiridion & Discourses; The Analects of Confucius; The Republic; On the Nature of Things; & Letters from a Stoic
- By: Marcus Aurelius, Miyamoto Musashi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others
- Narrated by: Peter Noble, Malk Williams
- Length: 101 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of 11 of the most renowned, widely-read, and essential philosophical works from Ancient Greece and Asia to 19th century America.
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The Philosophy Collection
- Meditations; The Book of Five Rings; Self Reliance; Beyond Good and Evil; Fear and Trembling; The Art of War; The Enchiridion & Discourses; The Analects of Confucius; The Republic; On the Nature of Things; & Letters from a Stoic
- Narrated by: Peter Noble, Malk Williams
- Length: 101 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 02-29-24
- Language: English
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Self Reliance
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Alana Munro
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,036
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 875
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The most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas....
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Don't buy this
- By Leah L on 07-31-16
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Self Reliance
- Narrated by: Alana Munro
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Release date: 05-30-12
- Language: English
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history....
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Riggenbach's Essays, Not Emerson's
- By Jake Behm on 12-01-15
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-10-12
- Language: English
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook compiles Ralph Waldo Emerson's most important works: "The American Scholar", "The Divinity School Address", "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "The Poet", and "Thoreau". The audiobook is expertly read by Daniel Adam Day. Published by American Renaissance Books....
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Chapters
- By LORA LLOYD on 01-12-24
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays
- Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-01-19
- Language: English
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Confianza en Uno Mismo
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Artur Mas
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Confianza en uno mismo es uno de los ensayos más emblemáticos de Emerson. Es una llamada a lo esencial de nosotros mismos como...
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Interesante pensamiento para la época
- By Andrés Mauricio Lopera Cortés on 02-15-24
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Confianza en Uno Mismo
- Narrated by: Artur Mas
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-01-21
- Language: Spanish
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Essays
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leader in the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century....
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Rich, Wonderful, and Insightful
- By Hank on 07-14-17
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Essays
- Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-25-17
- Language: English
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Circles
- Essays - First Series
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 31 mins
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Nothing stands still. The moment we grasp an idea, it expands beyond us. The instant we define a boundary, a wider one emerges. Ralph Waldo Emerson's...
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Circles
- Essays - First Series
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 04-04-25
- Language: English
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History
- Essays - First Series
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 55 mins
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Time does not hold history—people do. Emerson's History is not a chronicle of names and dates, not a reverence for the past, but a revelation: every...
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History
- Essays - First Series
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 04-10-25
- Language: English
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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In 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson, formerly a Unitarian minister, began a new career as a public lecturer. Nature (1836), his first published work, contained the essence of his transcendental philosophy. This collection contains 11 of his most celebrated and memorable essays....
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Phil Paonessa
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-16-18
- Language: English
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Compensation
- Essays - First Series
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 52 mins
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A world in perfect balance—so claims Emerson in Compensation, an essay that pulses with quiet defiance and deep assurance. No gain without loss, no...
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Compensation
- Essays - First Series
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 52 mins
- Release date: 04-04-25
- Language: English
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The Over-Soul
- Essays - First Series
- By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Length: 45 mins
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Over-Soul isn't just an essay—it's a revelation. It speaks of a vast, unshakable presence within us all, a silent force that...
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The Over-Soul
- Essays - First Series
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 45 mins
- Release date: 04-04-25
- Language: English
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