Representative Men

Representative Men  (1850)  by Ralph Waldo Emerson

sister projects: Wikipedia article. Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published as a book of essays in 1850

• Uses of Great Men
• Plato; or, the Philosopher
• Plato: New Readings
• Swedenborg; or, the Mystic
• Montaigne; or, the Skeptic
• Shakespeare; or the Poet
• Napoleon; Man of the World
• Goethe; or, the Writer

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.