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Harvard Classics episodes
- Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
Introductory note on Charles Darwin (#2) (Volume 29, Harvard Classics)
4 min - The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XX), by Charles Darwin
Many amazing things happen in the Malay jungles. For example, Darwin tells about a crab that climbs trees and walks down the trunks for an occasional bath in a pool. (Volume 29, Harvard Classics)
16 min - 5 min
- Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Cæsar), by Plutarch
Twice warned of the danger that threatened him on the Ides of March, although "the earth rocked and the stars fell and headless men walked in the Forum," Cæsar goes to the doom awaiting him in the Senate Chamber. (Volume 12, Harvard Classics)
Ides of March, March 15.
20 min - Introductory Note: Sir Thomas Malory
Introductory note on Sir Thomas Malory (Volume 35, Harvard classics)
3 min - The Holy Grail (Book 17, Ch. 10-14), by Sir Thomas Malory
"This gentlewoman that ye lead with you is a maid?" demanded the knight. "Sir," said she, "a maid I am." "Then she must yield us the custom of this castle." (Volume 35, Harvard Classics)
Malory, recorder of King Arthur stories, died March 14, 1470.
20 min - Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
Introductory note on Alessandro Manzoni (Volume 21, Harvard Classics)
8 min - I Promessi Sposi or The Betrothed (Ch. XX), by Alessandro Manzoni
Manzoni has pictured in this thrilling romance of the seventeenth century nobility, the pompous and sporting life of those good old days when nobles lived sumptuously in spacious castles surrounded by vast estates. (Volume 21, Harvard Classics)
36 min - Introductory Note: George Berkeley
Introductory note on George Berkeley (Volume 37, Harvard classics)
3 min - The Second Dialogue, by George Berkeley
Berkeley believed in a great religious future for America. He lived three years in Rhode Island, and made plans for a college in Bermuda. (Volume 37, Harvard Classics)
Bishop Berkeley born March 12, 1685.
27 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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