title: The Portable Emerson (Viking Portable Library)
author:  Ralph Waldo Emerson 
description: Herman Melville said that Ralph Waldo Emerson possessed a "self-conceit so intensely intellectual that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name," though he later admitted Emerson was "a great man." Both were probably true. The Sage of Concord gave more than 1500 speeches in his lifetime, and Self-Reliance is probably his most important work.
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  **The Libertine Novels**
  
  
  **John Phillips**
  
  
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  **Pluto**
  
  
  **Press**
  
  
  **LONDON • STERLING, VIRGINIA**
  
  
  
  
  
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  First published 2001 by Pluto Press
  
  
  345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA
  
  
  and 22883 Quicksilver Drive, Sterling, VA 20166-2012, USA www.plutobooks.com
  
  
  Copyright © John Phillips 2001
  
  
  The right of John Phillips to be identified as the author of this work has
  been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
  1988.
  
  
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  ISBN 0 7453 1504 6 hardback
  
  
  ISBN 0 7453 1598 4 paperback
  
  
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