Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XXXIX (in 51 volumes)
Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name Harvard Classics, this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XXXIX features the prefaces and prologues to works that have since been superceded, though their author's…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61640-123-8
- EAN: 9781616401238
- Produktnummer: 12062101
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 468 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.7 cm 620 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 620
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