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The Five Foot Shelf of Books The Complete Poems of John Milton
Author | : Charles W. Eliot,John Milton,P. F. Collier and Son |
Publsiher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2019-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1010370715 |
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The Harvard Classics
Author | : Charles William Eliot |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106007667253 |
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Harvard Classics All 71 Volumes
Author | : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson,Thomas Carlyle,Theodor Storm,Plato,Theodor Fontane,René Descartes,Gottfried Keller,Mark Twain,Immanuel Kant,Charles Darwin,Martin Luther,Robert Louis Stevenson,William Shakespeare,Dante Alighieri,Euripides,Percy Bysshe Shelley,Charles Lamb,Henry David Thoreau,Henry James,Samuel Johnson,John Stuart Mill,Victor Hugo,David Hume,Joseph Addison,Jane Austen,John Locke,John Fletcher,Francis Beaumont,Leigh Hunt,Epictetus,Alphonse Daudet,Thomas De Quincey,Guy de Maupassant,George Eliot,Walter Scott,Laurence Sterne,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Jonathan Swift,Christopher Marlowe,Wilhelm Grimm,William Hazlitt,Marcus Tullius Cicero,Daniel Defoe,Aesop,Richard Henry Dana,Henry Fielding,John Dryden,Philip Massinger,Pedro Calderón de la Barca,Bret Harte,George Sand,John Ruskin,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Renan,Robert Burns,David Garrick,Ralph Waldo Emerson,John Webster,Washington Irving,Izaak Walton,John Bunyan,Juan Valera,Alfred de Musset,James Russell Lowell,Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Homer,Edmund Burke,Plutarch,Molière,Aeschylus,Michael Faraday,Sophocles,William Makepeace Thackeray,Benjamin Franklin,Edward Everett Hale,Pierre Corneille,Jean Racine,Voltaire,Robert Browning,Oliver Goldsmith,Thomas Dekker,John Milton,Aristophanes,Blaise Pascal,Virgil,Richard Brinsley Sheridan,Simon Newcomb,William Penn,Walter Bigges,Philip Sidney,Herodotus,Walter Raleigh,Francis Bacon,Giuseppe Mazzini,Francis Pretty,George Berkeley,Thomas Hobbes,Adam Smith,Alessandro Manzoni,Abraham Cowley,Michel de Montaigne,Ben Jonson,John Woolman,Benvenuto Cellini,Sydney Smith,Jean Froissart,William Henry Harrison,William Harvey,Marcus Aurelius,Hans Christian Andersen,Thomas Malory,George Gordon Byron,Thomas à Kempis,Ivan Turgenev,Richard Steele,Thomas Browne,Archibald Geikie,Thomas Babington Macaulay,Leo Tolstoy,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Tacitus,William Roper,Hippocrates,Miguel de Cervantes,Thomas More,Friedrich von Schiller,Philip Nichols,Louis Pasteur,Joseph Lister,Jean Jacques Rousseau,Pliny the Younger,Charles W. Eliot,Edgar Alan Poe,Saint Augustine,Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz,Francis Drake,Edward Haies,Niccolo Machiavelli,Ambroise Paré,William A. Neilson,Honoré Balzac,Alexander L. Kielland |
Publsiher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 24734 |
Release | : 2023-12-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547793762 |
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Good Press presents to you this unique and meticulously edited collection by Dr. Eliot: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: Poems by John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Poems by Robert Burns V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas V. 9: Cicero and Pliny V. 10: The Wealth of Nations V. 11: The Origin of Species V. 12: Plutarch's Lives V. 13: Æneid V. 14: Don Quixote V. 15: Bunyan & Walton V. 16: Thousand and One Nights V. 17: Folklore & Fable V. 18: Modern English Drama V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe V. 20: The Divine Comedy V. 21: I Promessi Sposi V. 22: The Odyssey V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast V. 24: Edmund Burke V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle V. 26: Continental Drama V. 27 & 28: English and American Essays V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle V. 30: Scientific Papers V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays V. 33: Voyages & Travels V. 34: French & English Philosophers V. 35: Chronicle and Romance V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur V. 39: Prefaces and Prologues V. 40–42: English Poetry V. 43: American Historical Documents V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama V. 48: Blaise Pascal V. 49: Epic and Saga V. 50: Reader's Guide V. 51: Lectures The Shelf of Fiction: V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice V. 4: Guy Mannering V. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair V. 7 & 8: David Copperfield V. 9: The Mill on the Floss V. 10: Hawthorne, Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale V.11: The Portrait of a Lady V. 12: Notre Dame de Paris V. 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant V. 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane V. 16–19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev V. 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland
The Five Foot Shelf of Books
Author | : Charles William Eliot,P F Collier and Son |
Publsiher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1021095621 |
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Assembled by Harvard University president Charles William Eliot in the early 20th century, the Five-Foot Shelf of Books is a collection of classic works of literature, philosophy, and history that represents the best of Western thought and culture. This volume, featuring the poems and songs of Scotland's national bard Robert Burns, is a wonderful introduction to the rich literary heritage of the Scottish people. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Whole Five Feet
Author | : Christopher R. Beha |
Publsiher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780802199904 |
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This unique memoir of reading the classics to find strength and wisdom “makes an elegant case for literature as an everyday companion” (The New York Times Book Review). While undergoing a series of personal and family crises, Christopher R. Beha discovered that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics—the renowned “five foot shelf” of great world literature compiled in the early twentieth century by Charles William Eliot—to educate herself during the Great Depression. He decided to follow her example and turn to this series of great books for answers—and recounts the experience here in a smart, big-hearted, and inspirational mix of memoir and intellectual excursion that “deftly illustrates how books can save one’s life” (Helen Schulman). “As he grapples with the death of his beloved grandmother, a debilitating bout with Lyme disease and other major and minor calamities, Beha finds that writers as diverse as Wordsworth, Pascal, Kant and Mill had been there before, and that the results of their struggles to find meaning in life could inform his own.” —The Seattle Times “An important book [and] a sheer blast to read.” —Heidi Julavits
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction Classic Reprint
Author | : Charles William Eliot |
Publsiher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2017-10-16 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0265381002 |
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Excerpt from The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction The history of the German novel would have, however, also to record that those writers have secured the most permanent distinction who have most significantly modified in their own way the suggestions which foreign examples gave them, and that the greatest distinction of all belongs to writers whom we can, if we will, associate with one or another Of the main currents, but wh'o are by no means carried away by it. In the work of these men the national character Of the German novel, if it has a national character, ought to be discoverable. For two reasons it is a fair question whether the Ger man novel has a national character. In the first place, modern Germany has been a nation only Since 1871; and in the second place, only in times of some great crisis does there appear to be in Germany a national life, as we under stand the term. At other times life in Germany is urban, provincial, or private, in those aspects of existence which the Germans most prize. The imperial capital affects to represent Germany as London represents England and Paris represents France; but such ascendancy is stoutly denied Berlin in the capitals of the other states, and Saxons or Bavarians refuse to submit to Prussian hegemony in any other than political and military affairs. In literature Prussia is not the nation; the empire itself is a federation of states, and Berlin is less specifically a German city than any other in the realm. Germany is emphatically e plum'bus. Still, there may be some bond of union stronger than political alliance, some fundamental quality common to Prussian, Saxon, and Bavarian. In this we should seek the national character. We should find the national character depicted in the historical novel, which has had a great vogue in Germany; but we may discern it also in the fiction devoted to the problems Of contemporary life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Folk lore and Fable
Author | : Charles W. Eliot |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Fables |
ISBN | : OCLC:659083191 |
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Thoughts Letters Minor Works
Author | : Blaise Pascal |
Publsiher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781616401719 |
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Translator names not noted above: Mary L. Booth and Orlando W. Wight. 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 XLVIII features three collections of the writings of French polymath BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662): Thoughts, considered a great classic of religious writings, in which the former child prodigy mounts a sophisticated defense of his Catholic faith; Letters, to his friends and family as well as to the Swedish queen Christina; and Minor Works, including "Prayer, to Ask of God the Proper Use of Sickness," "Discourses on the Condition of the Great," "The Art of Persuasion," and more.