The Complete Harvard Classics 2020 Edition - ALL 71 Volumes The Complete Harvard Classics 2020 Edition - ALL 71 Volumes

The Complete Harvard Classics 2020 Edition - ALL 71 Volumes

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The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909.



Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result.



Eliot worked for one year with William A. Neilson, a professor of English; Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes. Each volume had 400–450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies." The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's and elsewhere, with great success.



Eight years later Eliot added a further 20 volumes as a sub-collection titled 'The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction', offering some of the greatest novels and short stories of world literature. The exhaustive anthology of the 'The Harvard Classics' comprises every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject up to the twentieth century.



The Harvard Classics:

. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn

2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius

3: Bacon, Milton, Browne

4: John Milton

5: R. W.

GENRE
Romans et littérature
SORTIE
2020
18 juillet
LANGUE
EN
Anglais
LONGUEUR
40 300
Pages
ÉDITIONS
LHN Books
DÉTAILS DU FOURNISSEUR
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
TAILLE
94,4
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