Lectures on the Classics from the Five Foot Shelf - The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. Li (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..