The Harvard classics. Edited by Charles W. Eliot
The Harvard Classics, originally known as
Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, 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. The most
comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both
the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the 20-volume Shelf of
Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher,
religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth
century.n 1910, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, then President of Harvard
University, put together an extraordinary library of "all the books
needed for a real education."
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