Lectures on the Classics from the Five Foot Shelf (51) - Couverture souple

 
9781616401771: Lectures on the Classics from the Five Foot Shelf (51)
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ISBN 10 : 161640177X ISBN 13 : 9781616401771
Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2010

Synopsis

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 LI, the final volume, features 60 fascinating lectures on the wide range of knowledge the series covers-history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, voyages and travel, and religion-that put this extraordinary survey of human knowledge in context. They are the collective capstone on a bookshelf reading course unparalleled in comprehensiveness and authority.

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Éditeur
Cosimo Classics
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
161640177X
ISBN 13 
9781616401771
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
496
Éditeur
Eliot Charles W, Neilson William Allan
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10 :  1616401788 ISBN 13 :  9781616401788
Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2010
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