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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
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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…
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Charles W Eliot
General And Chronological Index To The Harvard Classics Series: V50. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.
Contents: Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius. Hebrew: The Book of Job; The Book of Psalms; Ecclesiastes; or The Preacher. Christian: The Gospel According to Luke; The Acts of the Apostles.
Contents: Christian: The First and Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians; Hymns of the Christian Church. Buddhist: Buddhist Writings, Translated and Annotated by Henry Clarke Warren. Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita…
This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
Contents: An Account of Egypt by Herodotus; Tacitus on Germany; Sir Francis Drake Revived; Sir Francis Drake’s Famous Voyage Round the World; Drake’s Great Armada; Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Voyage to…
THIS 50 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Durable Satisfactions of Life, by Charles W. Eliot. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 141791324X.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.
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The 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…
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1910. Eliot, American educator and President of Harvard University, presents his religious and ethical views in this slim volume. Contents: The Durable Satisfactions of Life; The Happy…
Found in this work are the epics and sagas entitled: Beowulf; Song of Roland; Destruction of Da Derga’s Hotel; Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs. Each work is prefaced with…
Charles W. Eliot
Volume 10 of 10. Poems Old and New, Reading Guides and Index. The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a…
Volume 7 of 10. Stories of Courage and Heroism. The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of…
Contents: Oath of Hippocrates; Law of Hippocrates; Journeys in Diverse Places by Ambroise Pare; On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey; The Three Original…
Contents: William Caxton: Title, Prologue and Epilogues to the Recuyell of the Histories of Troy; Epilogue to Dictes; Prologue to Golden Legend, Caton, Aesop; Proem to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; Prologue…
Sample Contents: Chaucer; Traditional Ballads; Sir Thomas Wyatt; George Gascoigne; Anthony Munday; Sir Walter Raleigh; Sir Edward Dyer; John Lyly; Sir Philip Sidney; Thomas Lodge; George Peele; Robert Southwell; Samuel…
Sample Contents: William Collins; George Sewell; Alison Cockburn; Jane Elliot; John Logan; Samuel Johnson; Oliver Goldsmith; William Cowper; Anna Babbauld; Carolina Oliphant; Anne Hunter; William Blake; Robert Tannanill; William Wordsworth…
Sample Contents: Alfred Lord Tennyson; William Thackeray; Charles Kingsley; Robert Browning; Emily Bronte; Arthur Hugh Clough; Matthew Arnold; Charles Dickens; Daniel Gabriel Rossetti; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Robert Louis Stevenson; William…
This book places before the reader a selection of the most important documents which record in contemporary terms the great events in the history of the country.
Contents: Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe. The Tragedy of Hamlet prince of Denmark; The Tragedy of King Lear; The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
Contents: The Shoemaker’s Holiday by Thomas Dekker. The Alchemist by Ben Jonson. Philaster by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. A New Way to…
Contents: Beowulf translated by Francis B. Gummere. Song Roland translated by John O'Hagan. The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel translated by Whitley Stokes. The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs…
Jonathan Swift by William Thackeray. The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman. The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold; Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin. John Milton by…
Contents: The Defense of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney. On Shakespeare; On Bacon by Ben Jonson. Of Agriculture by Abraham Cowley. The Vision of Mirza; Westminster Abbey by Joseph Addison…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Considered \“the most remarkable delineation of pioneer life on the coast of Maine that has ever been published,\” this little book has been through numerous printings. It was originally published…
As written by the President of Harvard University. Contents: The Moral Purpose of the Universe; Lower and Higher Pleasures; Family Love; Pleasure in Bodily Exertion; The Pleasure of Reading; Mutual…
Eliot, American educator and President of Harvard University, presents his religious and ethical views in this slim volume. Contents: The Durable Satisfactions of Life; The Happy Life; John Gilley; Great…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
