Eight essential works of transcendentalism in one convenient, beautifully laid-out volume. A collection of exemplary works of transcendentalist thought, by the movement's most famous writers. Included in this volume: Henry David Thoreau's Walden - Thoreau's Walking - Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance - Emerson's Nature - Emerson's The American Scholar - William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis - Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Artist of the Beautiful