The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume Please login or register to view links of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Please login or register to view links president Please login or register to view links and first published in 1909.Please login or register to view links Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a Please login or register to view links could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher Please login or register to view links saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result. Eliot worked for one year with Please login or register to view links, a professor of English; Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes.Please login or register to view links Each volume had 400–450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies."Please login or register to view links The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Please login or register to view links and elsewhere, with great success. (from wiki) Link download Please login or register to view links
