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… The Harvard Classics … (Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf) …
… and as there are 51 volumes ... (figuring one-a-week) … that leaves one whole week every year for members to devote to other, perhaps less rewarding pursuits … (like playing video games or golf) …
Click HERE (https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_(Bookshelf)) to access the entire collection at The Gutenberg Project …
The Harvard Classics 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.
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Eliot believed that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending just 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf … (originally just three-foot). Publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by choosing which works should be included, 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 included texts that 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 with great success.
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