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We are pleased to present this release all 51 volumes of The Harvard Classics and all 20 volumes of The Harvard Classics Self of Fiction on DVD-ROM in pdf, epub, mobi and daisy formats. This is a tremendous value. The hardbound print editions of these timeless works - first printed over a hundred years ago - can be had for anywhere from several hundreds to several thousands of dollars. This disk gives you access to all 71 volumes of these works for far less and the multiple formats allow you to use your favorite e-reader. And look at the shelf space you save! 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. The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books." Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century. In 1910, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, then President of Harvard University, put together an extraordinary library of "all the books needed for a real education." Dr.Charles W.Eliot, the former Harvard president who edited the series, maintained that if one read just 15 minutes a day from the 51 volumes he assembled, it would constitute "a good substitute for a liberal education to anyone who would read them with devotion. Dr. Eliot states in The Editor's Introduction to the Harvard Classics: "My purpose in selecting- The Harvard Classics was to provide the literary materials from which a careful and persistent reader might gain a fair view of the progress of man observing , recording, inventing, and imagining from the earliest historical times to the close of the nineteenth century. Within the limits of fifty volumes, containing about 22,000 pages, I was to provide the means of obtaining such a knowledge of ancient and modern literature as seems essential to the twentieth century idea of a cultivated man. The best acquisition of a cultivated man is a liberal frame of mind or way of thinking; but there must be added to that possession acquaintance with the prodigious store of recorded discoveries, experiences, and reflections which humanity in its intermittent and irregular progress from barbarism to civilization has acquired and laid up. From that store I proposed to make such a selection as any intellectually ambitious American family might use to advantage, even if their early opportunities of education had been scanty." Eliot worked for one year with William A. Neilson, a professor of English. Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes. Each volume had 400-450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies." The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's Magazine and elsewhere, with great success. This unique digital edition of Dr. Eliot's 5 foot shelf of The Harvard Classics as well as the Harvard Classics Fiction Shelf is in pdf, epub, mobi and daisy formatsUse the links below to peruse the contents.
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Harvard Classics Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS Vol. 3. BACON, MILTON'S PROSE, THOS. BROWNE Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATIONS OF CHRIST Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH Vol. 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN Vol. 12. PLUTARCH'S LIVES Vol. 13. AENEID, VIRGIL Vol. 14. DON QUIXOTE, Part 1 only, CERVANTES Vol. 15. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON Vol. 16. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Vol. 17. FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSON Vol. 18. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA Vol. 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE Vol. 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE Vol. 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI Vol. 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER Vol. 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE Vol. 25. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE Vol. 26. CONTINENTAL DRAMA Vol. 27. ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY Vol. 28. ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN Vol. 29. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN Vol. 30. FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI Vol. 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS Vol. 33. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS Vol. 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES Vol. 35. CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD Vol. 36. MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER Vol. 37. LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME Vol. 38. HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR Vol. 39. FAMOUS PREFACES Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1: CHAUCER TO GRAY Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS 1 Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS 2 Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1 Vol. 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2 Vol. 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL Vol. 49. EPIC AND SAGA Vol. 50. INTRODUCTION, READER'S GUIDE, INDEXES Vol. 51. LECTURES
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
The History of Tom Jones, part 2, by Henry Fielding A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott Vanity Fair, part 1, by William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair, part 2, by William Makepeace Thackeray David Copperfield, part 1, by Charles Dickens David Copperfield, part 2, by Charles Dickens The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot The Scarlet Letter and "Rappaccini's Daughter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Anna Karenina, part 1, by Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina, part 2, and Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky A House of Gentlefolk and Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera
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