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ID: 345977

Title: Manners

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:03:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Philosophy

Summary:

In Manners, Ralph Waldo Emerson expounds on the meaning of customs and politeness in civil society. He argues that the purpose of manners is more to facilitate the creation and proper working of society, and not to establish hierarchies.

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ID: 345979

Title: Nature

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:51:10

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Philosophy

Summary:

This version of Nature is an 1843 revision to the popular essay written and published in 1836. In the original essay, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, and suggested that reality can be understood by studying nature. Within the essay, Emerson divides nature into four usages: Commodity, Beauty, Language and Discipline. These distinctions define how humans use nature for their basic needs, their desire for delight, their communication with one another and their understanding of the world.

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ID: 345980

Title: Circles

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:39:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Philosophy

Summary:

Circles is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first published in 1841. The essay reflects on the vast array of circles one may find throughout nature, and what is suggested by these circles in philosophical terms. In the opening line of the essay Emerson states The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

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ID: 345985

Title: American Scholar

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:03:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Philosophy

Summary:

The American Scholar was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. Emerson argues that American culture, still heavily influenced by Europe, could build a new, distinctly American cultural identity. Emerson uses Transcendentalist and Romantic points of view to explain a true American scholar's relationship to nature. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. declared this speech to be America's Intellectual Declaration of Independence. Building on the growing attention he was receiving from the essay Nature, this speech solidified Emerson's popularity and weight in America.

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ID: 345983

Title: Prudence

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:37:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Philosophy

Summary:

The essay on Prudence was given as a lecture in a course on Human Culture, in the winter of 1837-8. It was published in the first series of Essays, which appeared in 1841. In it, Emerson describes Prudence as The virtue of the senses and admits to having little of it in himself.

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ID: 345982

Title: Heroism

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Philosophy

Summary:

Building on and enriching ideas set forth in Self-Reliance, Emerson argues that true heroism is self-confidence and persistency in the face of corrosive pressures to conform to society.

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ID: 345984

Title: Compensation

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:03:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Philosophy

Summary:

Emerson's discourse on the laws of compensation, takes on the notion that one who has money must be wicked and those who do not must be good, among other topics. It appeared in his book Essays, first published in 1841.

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ID: 345976

Title: Gifts

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrator: Phil Paonessa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:12:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Philosophy

Summary:

In Gifts Ralph Waldo Emerson muses on the function of and expectations surrounding the giving of gifs. He touches on what gifts communicate about the nature of the giver and receiver, and how the best kind of gift is a gift of love.

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ID: 330161

Title: Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Mystery & Thriller

Summary:

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, is the ninth of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A young London engineer, contracted to service a hydraulic press at a country house, discovers that the owner is using the machine for illegal purposes. After confronting the owner, the engineer narrowly escapes death and loses a thumb when the owner turns on him. Holmes deduces the actual use of the machine and sets off to bring the evildoers to justice.

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ID: 330168

Title: Adventure of the Speckled Band

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Mystery & Thriller

Summary:

In The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Sherlock Holmes and Watson come to the aid of Helen Stoner, who has reason to fear her life is being threatened by her abusive stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott. Her sister, who died two years before, spoke of a speckled band right before she died in mysterious circumstances. To solve the mystery of the speckled band, Holmes and Watson stake out Miss Stoner's room and make a momentous discovery. The eighth of the twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle considered it the best of the Holmes stories.

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