Emerson's First Series preaches individual conscience and the divinity within each soul, from Self-Reliance to The Over-Soul.
Books that mention Essays (6)
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell: “One tried to read "Emerson's Essays," and fell asleep in the attempt; the other was turning over a parcel of new music”
Love and Mr Lewisham by H. G. Wells: “Jostling Shakespeare, Emerson's Essays, and the penny Life of Confucius, there were battered and defaced school books”
The Europeans by Henry James: “On a chair, beside her, lay a volume of Emerson’s Essays.”
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne: “I read interminably in Mr. Emerson's Essays, "The Dial," Carlyle's works, George Sand's romances”
The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: “Miss Mergle had told her at parting to live fearlessly and truly, and had further given her a volume of Emerson's Essays and Motley's "Dutch Republic," to help her through the rapids of adolescence.”