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Title: Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Harvard Classics a.k.a. Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf
Author: Matt Hamrick
Date: 2016 Jun 13 at 14:37

Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Harvard Classics a.k.a. Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf

Reading List

Harvard Classics a.k.a. Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf

The Harvard 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.

        The last volume contains sixty lectures introducing and summarizing the covered fields: history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, travelogues, and religion.

Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction was selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD (1834-1926), with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. It also features an index to Criticisms and Interpretations.

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Title: Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Harvard Classics a.k.a. Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf
Author: Matt Hamrick
Date: 2016 Jun 13 at 14:43

Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Harvard Classics a.k.a. Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf

Reading List

Harvard Classics a.k.a. Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf

The Harvard 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.

        The last volume contains sixty lectures introducing and summarizing the covered fields: history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, travelogues, and religion.

Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction was selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD (1834-1926), with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. It also features an index to Criticisms and Interpretations.

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