Emerson's Fall: A New Interpretation of the Major Essays, by B. L. Packer. Continuum, 1982. 244 pp. Brown cloth hardcover with tan dust jacket. In good condition. From the dust jacket: "Provides a reading of these [early] essays that combines an interpretation of their content with an attempt to create for the twentieth-century reader a sense of the background -- biographical, rhetorical, cultural, intellectual -- against which they were originally designed to be seen. ... Seen in this way, the essays no longer appear as a series of disconnected meditations on miscellaneous topics, but as parts of a personal mythology as consistent as Milton's or Blake's."