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pdf | 15.98 MB | English| | Author: Edgar Allan Poe, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry David Thoreau, Charles W. Eliot (Editor), Charles River Editors (Editor) | Year: 2011
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Quote:*Includes a Table of ContentsCategory:History, Biography, Current Affairs & Politics, United States History, Political Biography, European History, World History, 19th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous, British History - General & Miscellaneous, 19th Century United States History - Civil War, General & Miscellaneous World History, 19th Century American History - General and Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Political Biography, Great Britain - General & Miscellaneous History, United States Civil War - General & Miscellaneous, World History - General & Miscellaneous
*Illustrated with images of the authors
The Harvard Classics series is an incredible collection of the most important literary works, compiled by Charles Eliot (1834 - 1926), then president of Harvard University. Eliot stated that a liberal arts education could be supplemented by reading 15 minutes a day from classic works stored on a five foot shelf. For this reason, the series is also known as the Five Foot Shelf.
Volume 28 contains classic essays by American and British writers of the past few centuries, including the following works:
Jonathan Swift by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe
The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold
Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin
John Milton by Walter Bagehot
Abraham Lincoln and Demacy by James Russell Lowell
Truth of Intercourse and Samuel Pepys by Robert Louis Stevenson
On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by William Ellery Channing
Science and Culture by Thomas Huxley
Race and Language by Edward Augustus Freeman