The Art of Successful Living

Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the leading figures in the thought and literature of our civilisation. He was an essayist, critic, poet, orator and popular philosopher. As a writer, he was always concerned about his audience and his peers. Emerson's essays are a series of loosely related impressions, maxims, proverbs and parables. 'The Art of Successful Living' is a compilation of three of his well-known essays -- Love, Friendship and Self-Reliance. In these essays, he challenges and investigates the age-old traditions and insists on the interpenetration of the ideal and the real, of the spiritual and the material.