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Harvard Classics episodes
- Pliny's Letters, by Pliny the Younger
The eruption of Vesuvius that demolished Pompeii and buried thousands of people was witnessed by Pliny. He describes his panic-stricken flight with his mother from the doomed villa through falling ashes and sulphurous fumes. His famous uncle, the elder Pliny, lost his life while investigating the eruption and aiding refugees. (Volume 9, Harvard Classics)
22 min - Introductory Note: Pliny the Younger
Introductory note on Pliny the Younger (Volume 9, Harvard Classics)
4 min - On the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke
The Hottentot thinks his wife beautiful. Every American believes his wife also to be beautiful. But the American and the Hottentot are quite different. What, after all, is Beauty? (Volume 24, Harvard Classics)
32 min - 5 min
- Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana
In the days when sailing ships plied the seven seas, common sailors were often subject to a brutal captain whose whim was law. Dana, a Boston college boy, makes an exciting story of his sea experiences. (Volume 23, Harvard Classics)
38 min - Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana
Introductory note on Richard Henry Dana (Volume 23, Harvard Classics)
5 min
About Harvard Classics
From the publisher's feed
Former President of Harvard University Charles W. Eliot wrote in his introduction to the Harvard Classics, "In my opinion, a five-foot shelf would hold books enough to give a liberal education to any…
one who would read them with devotion, even if he could spare but fifteen minutes a day for reading." Here you are, you can easily listen to his entire 15-minutes-a-day study guide while commuting to and from work (most of us spend far more than 15 minutes a day commuting each day), doing mundane work in the office, washing dishes at home, or doing most of the things day in and day out. It is so easy, so entertaining, and so educational that they can be listened to again and again, until they permeate into our own thinking and into our characters. Perhaps, in one year's time, you will become someone you barely recognize, all for the better. Who knows?
-- Rich E Book
-- Rich E Book
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