{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, \"was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own.\" His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication."}, "covers": [6593538, 412943], "key": "/works/OL62238W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL18405A"}}], "title": "Essays, first series", "subjects": ["Essays", "Nonfiction", "Philosophy", "Story collection", "Essays (single author)", "American essays", "Fiction, short stories (single author)", "American literature", "Austin Tillotson college"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 14, "revision": 14, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-16T00:31:43.557423"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-12T21:57:44.009573"}}