The Complete Harvard Classics 2021 Edition - ALL 71 Volumes

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 The Harvard Universal 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. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result.
 
 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 and elsewhere, with great success.
 
 Eight years later Eliot added a further 20 volumes as a sub-collection titled 'The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction', offering some of the greatest novels and short stories of world literature. The exhaustive anthology of the 'The Harvard Classics' comprises every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject up to the twentieth century.
 
 The Harvard Classics:
 . 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn
 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius
 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne
 4: John Milton
 5: R. W. Emerson
 6: Robert Burns
 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis
 8: Nine Greek Dramas
 9: Cicero and Pliny
 10: The Wealth of Nations
 11: The Origin of Species
 12: Plutarchs
 13: Æneid
 14: Don Quixote
 15: Bunyan & Walton
 16: 1001 Nights
 17: Folklore & Fable
 18: Modern English Drama
 19: Goethe & Marlowe
 20: The Divine Comedy
 21: I Promessi Sposi
 22: The Odyssey
 23: Two Years Before the Mast
 24: Edmund Burke
 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle
 26: Continental Drama
 27 & 28: English & American Essays
 29: The Voyage of the Beagle
 30: Scientific Papers
 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays
 33: Voyages & Travels
 34: French & English Philosophers
 35: Chronicle and Romance
 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther
 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume
 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
 39: Prologues
 40¿42: English Poetry
 43: American Historical Documents
 44 & 45: Sacred Writings
 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama
 48: Blaise Pascal
 49: Saga
 50: Reader's Guide
 51: Lectures
 The Shelf of Fiction:
 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones
 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice
 4: Guy Mannering
 5 & 6: Vanity Fair
 7 & 8: David Copperfield
 9: The Mill on the Floss
 10: Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale
 11: The Portrait of a Lady
 12: Notre Dame de Paris
 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant
 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane
 16¿19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev
 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland

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