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Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics episodes
- 10 min
- Inaugural Address at Edinburgh University, by Thomas Carlyle
The most unhappy man, Carlyle says, is the man who has no real work - no interest in life. To avoid this miserable state, he advises faithful and diligent reading along the lines dictated by curiosity and interest. (Volume 25, Harvard Classics)
24 min - Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Introductory note on Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (Volume 23, Harvard Classics)
5 min - Two Years before the Mast (Ch. XIII), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Dana's description of the picturesque, pre-gold-rush California is unique. While he was on the Pacific coast he met a British sailor who was elaborately tattooed and of an unforgetable appearance and personality. (Volume 23, Harvard Classics)
27 min - 9 min
- The Odyssey (Book XXII), by Homer
After twenty years' absence, Odysseus returned home to find his house filled with strangers rioting and wasting his treasure. Crafty Odysseus, with the aid of his son and the gods, devised a bold plan to rid his home of the unwelcome guests. (Volume 22, Harvard Classics)
26 min - Introductory Note: Sir Francis Drake
Introductory note on Sir Francis Drake (Volume 33, Harvard Classics)
3 min - Drake’s Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges
Drake with a fleet of twenty-five ships and twenty-three hundred men sets sail to plunder and lay waste Spain's treasure hoards in the New World. Gold and silver bar, nuggets and jewels awaited the bold adventurers. (Volume 33, Harvard Classics)
27 min - Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
Introductory note on Charles Darwin (#2) (Volume 29, Harvard Classics)
4 min - The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XVII), by Charles Darwin
It was the new-old lands that Darwin visited on his voyage of the "Beagle." The strange specimens of prehistoric life he saw there made the world gape and shudder. (Volume 29, Harvard Classics)
Charles Darwin begins voyage in the "Beagle," Dec. 27, 1831.
39 min
About Harvard Classics
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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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