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The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot.
Clark and Calvino come to a similar conclusion that when a literary work is analyzed for what makes it 'classic', that in just the act of analysis or as Clark says "the anatomical dissection", [16] the reader can end up destroying the unique pleasure that mere enjoyment a work of literature can hold. Classics are often defined in terms of their ...
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world , classics traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin .
1725 in literature – Birth of Giacomo Casanova; the encyclopaedia Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China is completed, edited by Chen Menglei and Jiang Tingxi. First printed version of The Book of Abramelin; A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain by Benjamin Franklin; Fantomina by Eliza Haywood; Mariamne by Augustin ...
$2.99 at amazon.com. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The Chronicles of Narnia are a classic of children's literature for a reason, but particularly fitting for our winter books reading list ...
The Library of America [4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.