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  <abstract>"The Conduct of Life" by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a collection of essays published in 1860. In nine interconnected essays, Emerson tackles the central question of his era: "How shall I live?" Drawing from lectures delivered across America's expanding frontier towns, he explores practical matters of power, wealth, and behavior while wrestling with deeper tensions between fate and freedom, individual will and cosmic necessity. This work influenced writers including Nietzsche and sparked fierce debate—praised as Emerson's best by some, dismissed as repetitive by others. (This is an automatically generated summary.)</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Fate -- Power -- Wealth -- Culture -- Behavior -- Worship -- Considerations by the way -- Beauty -- Illusions.</tableOfContents>
  <note>Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conduct_of_Life</note>
  <note>Release date is 2012-05-27</note>
  <note>Produced by Al Haines</note>
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