The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious young men and women whose education was cut short by the necessity of contributing in early life to the family earnings, or of supporting themselves, "and who must therefore reach the standing of a cultivated man or woman through the pleasurable devotion of a few minutes a day through many years to the reading of good literature" (Introduction to The Harvard Classics.)
The Series will also assist many readers to cultivate "a taste for serious reading of the highest quality outside of The Harvard Classics as well as within them." (Ibid.) It will certainly promote the accomplishment of the educational object I had in mind when I made the collection. - Summary by Charles William Eliot
Chapters
1
History: General Introduction, by Robert Matteson Johnston Read by Sonia 41:14
2
Ancient History by William Scott Ferguson Read by Rita Boutros 20:42
3
The Renaissance, by Murray Anthony Potter Read by Rita Boutros 14:34
4
The French Revolution, by Robert Matteson Johnston Read by Rita Boutros 12:23
5
The Territorial Development of the United States, by Frederick Jackson Turner Read by Cbteddy 15:54
6
Poetry: General Introduction, by Carleton Noyes Read by Sonia 41:48
7
Homer and the Epic, by Charles Burton Gulick Read by Ann Boulais 11:00
8
Dante, by Charles Hall Grandgent Read by Ann Boulais 11:04
9
The Poems of John Milton, by Ernest Bernbaum Read by Larry Wilson 11:17
10
The English Anthology, by Carleton Noyes Read by Will Shakespeare 17:27
11
Natural Science: General Introduction, by Lawrence Joseph Henderson Read by Cbteddy 36:52
12
Astronomy, by Lawrence Joseph Henderson Read by Availle 11:23
13
Physics and Chemistry, by Lawrence Joseph Henderson Read by Will Shakespeare 12:45
14
The Biological Sciences, by Lawrence Joseph Henderson Read by Rita Boutros 12:35
15
Kelvin on "Light" and "The Tides", by William Morris Davis Read by Atul Sharma 11:34
16
Philosophy: General Introduction, by Ralph Barton Perry Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi 46:19
17
Socrates, Plato and the Roman Stoics, by Charles Pomeroy Parker Read by Availle 11:07
18
The Rise of Modern Philosophy, by Ralph Barton Perry Read by Larry Wilson 11:56
19
Introduction to Kant, by Ralph Barton Perry Read by Larry Wilson 11:40
20
Emerson, by Chester Noyes Greenough Read by MoonLylith 11:58
21
Biography: General Introduction, by William Roscoe Thayer Read by Cbteddy 38:09
22
Plutarch, by William Scott Ferguson Read by laurakgibbs 10:18
23
Benvenuto Cellini, by Chandler Rathfon Post Read by Robert Dipboye 13:33
24
Franklin and Woolman, by Chester Noyes Greenough Read by Robert Dipboye 12:24
25
John Stuart Mill, by Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague Read by Rita Boutros 11:39
26
Prose Fiction: General Introduction, by William Allan Neilson Read by TR Love 46:29
27
Popular Prose Fiction, by Fred Norris Robinson Read by TR Love 12:56
28
Malory, by Gustavus Howard Maynadier Read by Brandon Brinkley 12:58
29
Cervantes, by J. D. M. Ford Read by Rita Boutros 13:46
30
Manzoni, by J. D. M. Ford Read by Rita Boutros 12:19
31
Criticism and the Essay: General Introduction, by Bliss Perry Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi 38:13
32
What the Middle Ages Read, by William Allan Neilson Read by Vendel Farkas 12:45
33
Theories of Poetry, by Bliss Perry Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi 17:50
34
Æsthetic Criticism in Germany, by William Guild Howard Read by Sonia 12:24
35
The Composition of a Criticism, by Ernest Bernbaum Read by Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi 12:31
36
Education: General Introduction, by Henry Wyman Holmes Read by KrisD 48:13
37
Francis Bacon, by Ernest Bernbaum Read by laurakgibbs 12:01
38
Locke and Milton, by Henry Wyman Holmes Read by Victoria Scrimer 13:51
39
Carlyle and Newman, by Frank W. C. Hersey Read by Robert Dipboye 13:08
40
Huxley on Science and Culture, by A. O. Norton Read by Claudia Caldi 13:39
41
Political Science: General Introduction, by Thomas Nixon Carver Read by Cbteddy 40:29
42
Theories of Government in the Renaissance, by Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague Read by Atul Sharma 10:47
43
Adam Smith and the "Wealth of Nations", by Charles Jesse Bullock Read by Will Shakespeare 13:46
44
The Growth of the American Constitution, by William Bennett Munro Read by mleigh 13:33
45
Law and Liberty, by Roscoe Pound Read by Cbteddy 11:07
46
Drama: General Introduction, by George Pierce Baker Read by S. Emily Lee 42:56
47
Greek Tragedy, by Charles Burton Gulick Read by Victoria Scrimer 10:55
48
The Elizabethan Drama, by William Allan Neilson Read by Victoria Scrimer 10:10
49
The Faust Legend, by Kuno Francke Read by laurakgibbs 11:50
50
The Modern English Drama, by Ernest Bernbaum Read by Atul Sharma 9:48
51
Voyages and Travel: General Introduction, by Roland Burrage Dixon Read by Will Caffey 44:02
52
Herodotus on Egypt, by George H. Chase Read by laurakgibbs 11:53
53
The Elizabethan Adventurers, by William Allan Neilson Read by Christine Rottger 11:30
54
The Era of Discovery, by William Bennett Munro Read by Brandon Brinkley 10:19
55
Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, by George Howard Parker Read by Atul Sharma 11:11
56
Religion: General Introduction, by Ralph Barton Perry Read by Cbteddy 41:53
57
Buddhism, by Charles Rockwell Lanman Read by Availle 13:11
58
Confucianism, by Alfred Dwight Sheffield Read by April6090 13:31
59
Greek Religion, by Clifford Herschel Moore Read by Christine Rottger 11:52
60
Pascal, by Charles Henry Conrad Wright Read by Will Shakespeare 12:36
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