April 12, 2024
Harvard Classics Complete set
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Harvard Classics Complete Collection, all volumes are 1960-1965 copyright dates.The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 52-volume anthology ofclassic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W.Eliot and first published in 1909. These books cover the most significant works from major literaryfigures, philosophers, religion, folklore and historical subjects up to the time of their printing. Dr.Charles W. Eliot, then President of Harvard University, put together an extraordinary library of "all thebooks needed for a real education."Volume 1. - Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William PennVolume 2. - Plato, Epictecus, Marcus AureliusVolume 3. - Bacon, Essays; Milton, Tractate on Education;Thomas Browne, ReligioVolume 4. - Milton's Complete Poems in EnglishVolume 5. - Emerson, Essays and English TraitsVolume 6. - Burns, Poems and SongsVolume 7. - Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Thomas A. Kempis, The Imitation of ChristVolume 8. - Nine Greek DramasVolume 9. - Letters and Treatises of Cicero and CaeciliusVolume 10. - Adam Smith, The Wealth of NationsVolume 11. - Darwin, The Origin of SpeciesVolume 12. - Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Greeks and RomansVolume 13. - Virgil, AeneidVolume 14. - Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part IVolume 15. - Bunyan. The Pilgrim's
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