Talk:Harvard Classics

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I was strongly tempted to make the sentence about Malcolm X read:


 * Malcolm X claimed to have read the entire set when he was in prison, which, if true, would make him the only human being in history to have done so.

Goodness, what a tedious set of books to plow through! Personally, I would have been stopped dead in my tracks right at the start of Volume 1 by Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, which I did try to read once, and believe me the word is "try," not "succeed."

I know there are those who claim to have read Paradise Lost with enjoyment, but me, I'm with the character in Butler's The Way of All Flesh, who, when informed that "Milton ... only got five pounds for 'Paradise Lost'" replied "And a great deal too much. I would have given him twice as much myself not to have written it at all."

I suppose that I could read the whole set&mdash;but I believe you would have to put me in prison, with nothing else to read, in order to get me to do it. Dpbsmith 23:15, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Junior Classics
I do actually have a copy of the Harvard Classics' Odyssey from the original 1909 printing. Calls itself "The Five Foot Shelf of Books" and in the back announces the upcoming publication of "The Junior Classics," a Harvard Classics-like series intended for children. Does anyone know if it was ever actually published?--tronDB 14:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it was published in 1912 and for many years by Collier — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrScottW (talk • contribs) 18:00, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

electronic format?
Does anyone know if the Harvard Classics have been put into electronic format such as Gutenberg? 66.56.247.94 12:01, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

What I want to know is if Librivox has recorded any of these. Well, I know it has some of them, but I wonder if it's been done as a whole. I listened to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress this year and absolutely loved it, found it to be very meaningful and touching. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.169.187.159 (talk) 06:19, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

The "External Links and References Section" links to an online version Kivaan 14:30, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Project Gutenberg does have a collection of the Harvard Classics (as a 'bookshelf' collection). I added a link to it in the References section. --MidnightLightning (talk) 20:42, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

article title
Why is there no The on the title. See e.g. []. Is there some sub-rule about compilations deeo in the WP:MOS? trespassers william (talk) 20:27, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Popular Culture
In The Waltons episode "The Five Foot Shelf"  season 2 episode 23  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.252.243.177 (talk) 16:23, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Financial Costs
How much did it cost to buy the set? Were installment plans available, and how much did they cost? How did publisher and retailer prices vary over the original-sale commercial tenure of the set? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.152.73.25 (talk) 16:23, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

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15 Minutes Per Day?
The news article cited in the opening paragraph doesn't mention 15 minutes per day and I can't find a reference to this anywhere. My major question when looking at this was "over what time period?" If someone comes across the citation please update/I'm very curious to find out what the context of that remark was Jakesyl (talk) 01:49, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

15 minutes a day as been part of the focus by Dr. Eliot since he started thinking about this. it was expanded from 10 minutes to 15 when he tried to finalize the list in 1909. it was copyrighted in 1910 and later in 1915, 1916, 1917, 26 and 30 as the pamphlet changed. the pdf of the reading guide is available on the internet — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrScottW (talk • contribs) 23:37, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

I added an edit to move cite to this statement in an article in 1910, edit to cite "15 minutes a day" in publishers statement in Jan 1910 article comment added by DrScottW  — Preceding undated comment added 21:03, 22 January 2021 (UTC)