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The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, was a fifty-volume anthology of works selected by Charles W. Eliot. It was originally published in 1909. Dr. Eliot, then President of Harvard University, had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending fifteen 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 him to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works; the Harvard Classics was the result. Prof. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

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The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's Magazine and elsewhere, with great success. As Adam Kirsch, writing in 2001 Harvard Magazine, notes, "It is surprisingly easy, even today, to find a complete set of the Harvard Classics in good condition. At least one is usually for sale on eBay, the Internet auction site, for $300 or so, a bargain at $6 a book. The supply, from attics or private libraries around the country, seems endless—a tribute to the success of the publisher, P.F. Collier, who sold some 350,000 sets within 20 years of the series' initial publication." Colliers Weekly was a United States magazine that was published between 1888 and 1957. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...


Malcolm X read the entire set when he was in prison. Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965 – also known as: Detroit Red, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, and Omowale) was an American spokesman for the Nation of Islam. ...


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The concept of education through systematic reading of seminal works themselves (rather than textbooks), was carried on by John Erskine at Columbia University, and, in the 1930s, Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins at the University of Chicago, carried this idea further with the concepts of education through study of the "great books" and "great ideas" of Western civilization. This led to the publication of Great Books of the Western World, which is still in print and actively marketed. In 1937, under Stringfellow Barr, St. John's College introduced a curriculum based on the direct study of "great books." John Erskine (October 5, 1879 - June 2, 1951) was a U.S. educator and author. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... Mortimer Adler around 1963 Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher and author. ... Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899, Brooklyn, New York - May 17, 1977, Santa Barbara, California) was an educational philosopher. ... Great Books refers to a curriculum and a book list that came about as the result of a discussion among American academics and educators, starting in the 1920s and 1930s and begun by Prof. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Stringfellow Barr is a historian, an author, and a former president of St. ... St. ...


The Harvard Classics set is popular today with those interested in home schooling. Homeschooling (also called home education) is the education of children at home and in the community, in contrast to education in an institution such as a public or parochial school. ...


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The Harvard Classics

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON, 1909–1917

  1. His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin; Journal, by John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
  2. The Apology, Phædo and Crito of Plato; The Golden Sayings of Epictetus; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
  3. Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon; Areopagitica & Tractate on Education, by John Milton; Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne
  4. Complete Poems Written in English, by John Milton
  5. Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  6. Poems and Songs, by Robert Burns
  7. The Confessions of Saint Augustine; The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis
  8. Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, The Furies & Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus; Oedipus the King & Antigone of Sophocles; Hippolytus & The Bacchæ; of Euripides; The Frogs of Aristophanes
  9. On Friendship, On Old Age & Letters, by Cicero; Letters, by Pliny the Younger
  10. Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
  11. The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
  12. Lives, by Plutarch
  13. Æneid, by Virgil
  14. Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes
  15. The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan; The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton
  16. Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
  17. Fables, by Æsop; Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen
  18. All for Love, by John Dryden; The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith; The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley; A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, by Robert Browning; Manfred, by Lord Byron
  19. Faust, Part I, Egmont & Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe; Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
  20. The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
  21. I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni
  22. The Odyssey of Homer
  23. Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr..
  24. On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke
  25. Autobiography & On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle
  26. Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca; Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille; Phædra, by Jean Racine; Tartuffe, by Molière; Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller
  27. English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
  28. Essays: English and American
  29. The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
  30. Scientific Papers
  31. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  32. Literary and Philosophical Essays
  33. Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern
  34. Discourse on Method, by René Descartes; Letters on the English, by Voltaire; On the Inequality among Mankind & Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau; Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
  35. The Chronicles of Jean Froissart; The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory; A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison
  36. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli; The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper; Utopia, by Sir Thomas More; The Ninety-Five Theses, Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther
  37. Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke; Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume
  38. The Oath of Hippocrates; Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré; On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey; The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner; The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes; On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister; Scientific Papers, by Louis Pasteur; Scientific Papers, by Charles Lyell
  39. Prefaces and Prologues
  40. English Poetry I: Chaucer to Gray
  41. English Poetry II: Collins to Fitzgerald
  42. English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman
  43. American Historical Documents: 1000–1904
  44. Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius; Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes; Christian I: Luke & Acts
  45. Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns; Buddhist: Writings; Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita; Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran [sic]
  46. Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe; Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
  47. The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker; The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson; Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher; The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster; A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger
  48. Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal
  49. Epic & Saga: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel & The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
  50. Index
  51. Lectures on the Harvard Classics

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Francis Bacons book The New Atlantis, written in 1626, depicts a mythical land, Bensalem, to which he sailed. ... Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist. ... Areopagitica: A speech of Mr John Milton for the liberty of unlicenced printing to the Parliament of England is a prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War. ... See John Milton (politician) for the American politician John Milton, English poet John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, best-known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. ... Sir Thomas Brownes Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) was in its day a European best-seller which brought its author fame and respect throughout the continent. ... Sir Thomas Browne (October 19, 1605 - October 19, 1682) was an English author of varied works that disclose his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric. ... See John Milton (politician) for the American politician John Milton, English poet John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, best-known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was a famous American essayist and one of Americas most influential thinkers and writers. ... Robert Burns, preeminent Scottish poet Statue of Burns in London Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) is the best known of the poets who have written in Scots. ... Confessions is the name of a series of thirteen books by St. ... St. ... The Imitation of Christ (or De imitatione Christi), by Thomas à Kempis is one of the most widely read Christian spiritual books in existence. ... 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The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

The Harvard classics shelf of fiction, is 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.

1 & 2 The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
3 A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne; Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
4 Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott
5 & 6 Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
7 & 8 David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
9 The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
10 The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving; Three Short Stories, by Edgar Allan Poe; Three Short Stories, by Francis Bret Harte; Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, by Samuel L. Clemens; The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale
11 The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
12 Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo
13 Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac; The Devil's Pool, by George Sand; The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset; Five Short Stories, by Alphonse Daudet; Two Short Stories, by Guy de Maupassant
14 & 15 Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship & The Sorrows of Werther, by J. W. von Goethe; The Banner of the Upright Seven, by Gottfried Keller; The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm; Trials and Tribulations, by Theodor Fontane
16 & 17 Anna Karenin & Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy
18 Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
19 A House of Gentlefolk & Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev
20 Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera; A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson; Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland

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Guy Mannering is a novel by Sir Walter Scott published anonymously in 1815. ... For the first Premier of Saskatchewan see Thomas Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott (August 14, 1771 - September 21, 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe. ... This article is on the novel, Vanity Fair. ... William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. ... David Copperfield is a quasi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens. ... Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new installment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860. ... George Eliot Mary Ann Evans, better known by the pen name George Eliot (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880), was an English novelist. ... Salem Custom House The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is a classic American prose romance written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his masterpiece. ... Rappaccinis Daughter is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that concerns a medical researcher in medieval Padua. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1860s Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. ... Rip van Winkle is a short story by Washington Irving, as well as the name of the storys fictional protagonist. ... The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection , written while he was living in Birmingham, England and first published in 1819. ... Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. ... This daguerreotype of Poe was taken less than a year before his death at the age of 40. ... Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836–May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. ... The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (also published as The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog) is a short story by Mark Twain. ... Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. ... The Man without a Country was a novel by Edward Everett Hale, published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863. ... Statue of Edward Everett Hale in Boston Public Garden, by Bela Pratt. ... The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillans Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. ... Photograph of Henry James Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843 - February 28, 1916), son of Henry James Sr. ... The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in French, Notre-Dame de Paris) is a novel first published in 1831 by the French literary giant Victor Hugo. ... Victor Hugo Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885) was a French author, the most important of the Romantic authors in the French language. ... Le Père Goriot (Engish title: Old Goriot) is a 1835 novel written by Honoré de Balzac. ... Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) was a French novelist. ... George Sand (portrait by Nadar) Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 – June 8, 1876) was a French novelist and early feminist (prior to the invention of the word) who wrote under the pen name of George Sand. ... Tomb of Alfred de Musset in Le Père Lachaise cemetery. ... Alphonse Daudet (May 13, 1840 - December 17, 1897) was a French novelist. ... Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (IPA: ) (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer. ... Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship (in German, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) was a 1795 novel by Goethe. ... Die Leiden des jungen Werther (In English: The Sorrows of Young Werther) is a loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe â–¶(?) (IPA: ) (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and for ten years chief minister of state at Weimar. ... Gottfried Keller (July 19, 1819 – July 15, 1890) was a Swiss writer who is best known as the master of the Novelle. ... Theodor Storm (1886) Theodor Woldsen Storm (September 14, 1817 in Husum, Germany - July 4, 1888 in Hademarschen, Germany) studied and practiced law in northern Germany. ... Theodor Fontane (December 30, 1819, Neuruppin - September 20, 1898, Berlin) was a German novelist and poet. ... Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) is a novel by Leo Tolstoy that was first published in 1877. ... Ivan the Fool (also known as Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers) is an 1886 short story by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886. ... Leo Tolstoy, pictured late in life Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (?) (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910, N.S.; August 28, 1828 – November 7, 1910, O.S.) was a Russian novelist, social reformer, pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, moral thinker and an influential... Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel written in 1866 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. ... Fyodor Dostoevsky. ... Fathers and Sons was an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, his best known work. ... Ivan Turgenev, photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910) Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian: , November 9, 1818, Orel, Russia - September 3, 1883, Bougival, near Paris, France ) was a major Russian novelist and playwright. ... Juan Valera y Alcala Galiano (1824 - 1905) was a Spanish author, writer and political figure. ... Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (December 8, 1832–April 26, 1910) was a Norwegian author and Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 1903. ... Different meaning: Alexander Kielland (platform). ...

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