# Representative Men (Version 2)

An audiobook by Ralph Waldo Emerson, read by LibriVox volunteers (7 h 18 min, English).

Seven Essays: his reasoning why and how great men have always been honored and necessary in our civilization, followed by six chapters dealing with, in order: Plato, Swedenborg, Montaigne, Shakspeare (sic), Napoleon and Goethe. Emerson was an old fashioned "Man of Letters". He was the head of the mid-19th century School of Transcendentalism. Poetry, essay and book on Philosophy, human rights and religious and social rights. - Summary by William Jones

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/18104)
[Read the book](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/gutenberg/6312/read)