Harvard Classics Volume 51: Lectures

by William Allan Neilson

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Paperback, 2015

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Available

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082

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Publication

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2015), 468 pages

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Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume LI, the final volume, features 60 fascinating lectures on the wide range of knowledge the series covers-history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, voyages and travel, and religion-that put this extraordinary survey of human knowledge in context. They are the collective capstone on a bookshelf reading course unparalleled in comprehensiveness and authority.… (more)

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The first volume of the set are the introductory lectures in each of the topics of the series. It provides an insight into the view of knowledge and learning of the time. Literary materials are thus made available to many ambitious women and men whose education was cut short since they had to
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 contribute to their family finances or who had to support themselves. They could however cultivate themselves with pleasurable daily reading (p. 5).
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Language

English

Original language

English

Physical description

468 p.; 8 inches

ISBN

151420147X / 9781514201473

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