The Harvard Classics Volumes 15, 49, 2, 17, 48, 18, 27, 33


Item Number: 277

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Description

Here is your chance to own a part of the Harvard Classics! This set features:



  • Bunyan and Walton (#15)

  • Epic and Saga (#49)

  • Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius (#2)

  • Folklore and Fable (#17)

  • Thoughts and Minor Works (#48)

  • Modern EnglihDrama (#18)

  • English Essays Sidney to Macaulay (#27)

  • Voyages and Travels (#33)


The Harvard Classics is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historicaldocuments compiled and edited by then-Harvard President Charles W. Eliot. Eliot believed that spending 15 minutes per day reading these works would offer the reader the benefits of a liberal education without having to attend school. P.F. Collier & Son published the first 25 volumes in 1909, and the next 25 were published in 1910. 


Eliot is the longest-serving Harvard president, having served for 40 years between 1869 and 1909. Under his tenure, Harvard vastly expanded from a small New England college to a major national and international university. 

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Susan Thabit