Emerson's Representative Men and Their Works

The 206 books on this CD include Emerson's biographical essays "Representataive Men", plus other works by Emerson, plus works by and about the individuals he focuses on: Plato, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Swedenborg, Goethe, and Napoleon.

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Table of Contents

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

• Representative Men
• The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson

• volume 1
• volume 2
• Essays, First Series
• Essays, Second Series
• May Day and Other Pieces
• Poems
• about Emerson
• Critical Miscellanies by John Morley, volume 1, essay 5 Emerson
• Four American Leaders by Charles W. Eliot
• Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Stearns
• Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)
• Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman
• Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Plato (427-347 BC), translated to English by Benjamin Jowett

• Alcibiades I
• Apology
• Charmides (and preface to the collection)
• Cratylus
• Critias
• Crito
• Euthyphro
• Euthydemus
• Gorgias
• Ion
• Laches
• Laws
• Lesser Hippias
• Lysis
• Menexus
• Meno
• Parmenides
• Phaedo
• Phaedrus
• Philebus
• Protagoras
• Republic
• Sophist
• Statesman
• Symposium
• Theaetetus
• Timaeus
• by unknown imitators of Plato
• Alcibiades II
• Eryxias
• about Plato
• Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
• Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

• Essays, translated to English by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazlitt
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7
• Volume 8
• Volume 9
• Volume 10

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• plays -- the Mobey electronic edition
• All's Well that Ends Well
• Antony and Cleopatra
• As You Like It
• Comedy of Errors
• Coriolanus
• Cymbeline
• Hamlet
• Henry IV Part 1
• Henry IV Part 2
• Henry V
• Henry VI Part 1
• Henry VI Part 2
• Henry VI Part 3
• Henry VIII
• Julius Caesar
• King John
• King Lear
• Love's Labor Lost
• Macbeth
• Measure for Measure
• Merchant of Venice
• Merry Wives of Windsor
• Midsummer Night's Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Othello
• Pericles Prince of Tyre
• Richard II
• Richard III
• Romeo and Juliet
• Taming of the Shrew
• Tempest
• Timon of Athens
• Titus Andronicus
• Troilus and Cressida
• Twelfth Night
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Winter's Tale
• plays -- the first folio (35 plays in a single document)
• plays attritubuted in part to Shakespeare
• Comedy of Mucedorus
• Faire Em
• King Edward III
• Life and Death of Lord Cromwell
• The London Prodigal
• The Merry Devill
• The Puritaine Widdow
• Two Noble Kinsmen
• Sir Thomas More
• Tragedy of Locrine
• A Yorkshire Tragedy
• poetry
• Lover's Complaint
• Passionate Pilgrim
• Rape of Lucrece
• Sonnets
• Venus and Adonis
• Shakespeare in German translation
• Coriolanus, translated by Dorothea Tieck
• with accents
• without accents
• Hamlet, Prinz von Dannemark, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Die Irrungen (Comedy of Errors), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Julius Caesar, translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
• Der Kaufman von Venedig (Merchant of Venice), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
• with accents
• without accents
• Koenig Heinrich dem Vierten, Der Erste Theil translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Koenig Heinrich dem Vierten, Der Zeyte Theil translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• Koenig Johann (King John), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Koenig Lear (King Lear), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Maass fuer Maass (Measure for Measure), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Macbeth, translated by Dorothea Tieck
• with accents
• without accents
• Othello, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Richard II, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Richard III, translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
• with accents
• without accents
• Romeo und Julia (Romeo and Juliet), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
• with accents
• without accents
• Romeo und Juliette, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Sommernachtstraum (Mid-Summer Night's Dream), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
• with accents
• without accents
• Ein Johannis Nachts-Traum (Mid-Summer Night's Dream), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Der Sturm (The Tempest), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Timon von Athen, translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Was ihr wollt (As You Like It), translated by Christoph Martin Wieland
• with accents
• without accents
• Wie es euch gefaellt (As You Like It), translated by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
• with accents
• without accents
• Shakespeare in French translation
• Macbeth, translated by M. Guizot
• related materials
• The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Swinburne
• Bacon is Shake-speare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
• Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit
• Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
• glossary
• Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain
• The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris
• Notes to Shakespeare, Volume 1, Comedies by Samuel Johnson
• The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner
• The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare by Delia Bacon
• Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
• Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown by Andrew Lang
• Shakespeare und die Bacon-Mythen (in German) by Kuno Fischer
• Shakespeare's Bones by C.M. Ingleby
• Shakespeare's Insomnia and the Case Thereof
• Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
• Shakespeare Study Programs: the Comedies by Charlotte Porter and Helen Clarke
• Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Character, volume 1, by Rev. H.N. Hudson
• The Tragedie of Hamlet: a Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald
• Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

Emanuel Swedenborg  (1688-1662)

• Spiritual Life and the Word of God by
• The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugal Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
• Life of Emanuel Swedenborg, Together with a brief synopsis of his writings, both philosophical and theological. by William White

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Die Aufgeregten, without accents, play

Autobiography, in English

Belagerung von Mainz

Briefe aus der Sweiz

Egmont, a tragedy in five acts

translated to English by Anna Swanwick

in German

Faust

Part 1, in English

Part 1, in German

Part 2, in German

translated by Charles Brooks

translated by Bayard Taylor

Untersuchungen ueber Goethes Faust edited by J. Collin

Die Geschwister

Goetz von Berlichingen

Hermann and Dorothea

translated to English by Ellen Frothingham

in German

Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by Anna Swanwick

Iphigenie in Tauris, in German

Italienische Reise

Part 1, in German

Part 2, in German

Kampagne in Frankreich

Die Laune des Verliebten, in German without accents

De Leiden des Jungen Werther or The Sorrows of Young Werther

translated to English by Thomas Carlyle and R.D. Boylan, Edited by Nathen Haskell Dole

Part 1, in German

Part 2, in German

Die Mitschuldigen

Die Naturliche Tocher, in German without accents

Novelle, in German

Poems, translated to English by Edgar Alfred Bowring

Prometheus, play, in German without accents

Reineke Fuchs

Roemische Elegien

in English (entitled Erotica Romana)

in German

Satyros, in German

Torquato Tasso, in German without accents

Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten

Venetische Epigramme

Wahlverwandschaften

West-oestlicher Divan

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, in German

volume 1

volume 2

volume 3

volume 4

volume 5

volume 6

volume 7

volume 8

Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre

volume 1, in German with accents

volume 2, in German with accents

volume 3, in German with accents

about Goethe

Goethe's Biographie, in German, by Dr. H. Doering

Ueber Goethes Hermann und Dorothea

The Youth of Goethe by P. Hume Brown

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

• After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W.E. Frye, 1908
• Boy Life of Napoleon by Eugenie Foa, 1895
• The Court of the Empress Josephine by Imbert de Saint-Amand, translated by Thomas Perry, 1900
• Folk Tales of Napoleon by Honore de Balzac and Alexander Amphitreahof
• Life of Napoleon I by John Holland Rose
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Memoirs of Court of St. Cloud by Stewarton (7 volumes in one file)
• The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, his private secretary, edited by R.W. Phipps (16 volumes, 2.8 Mbytes, in a single file)
• Napoleon Bonaparte by John Abbott
• Napoleon's Campaign in Russia by Dr. A. Rose
• Oeuvres de Napoleon Bonaparte, 1821
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon by Constant, Premier Valet de Chambre, translated by Walter Clark (12 volumes, 1.7 Mbytes in a single file)
• Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5, The Modern Regime/Napoleon Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine
• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4
• Book 5
• Book 6