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Harvard Classics episodes
- 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. XXI), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
When the glorious Western coast was only partly settled, Dana visited the Presidios. He saw frontier life at a time when Spanish splendor still gilded California. (Volume 23, Harvard Classics)
16 min - Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
Introductory note on Alessandro Manzoni (Volume 21, Harvard Classics)
8 min - I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), by Alessandro Manzoni
Food profiteering was as active in plague-stricken Milan 300 years ago as in modern times. Shops were stormed for food. Read how the Council strove heroically to fix fair rates. (Volume 21, Harvard Classics)
Sale of corn and flour regulated in Milan, Nov. 15, 1629.
32 min - 3 min
- Principles of Geology (Uniformity Of Change), by Charles Lyell
We wonder if the man who worried about the "scientifical" prediction that "The sun's heat will give out in ten million years more," had read Lyell on the gradual changes in the earth's surface. (Volume 38, Harvard Classics)
Sir Charles Lyell born Nov. 14, 1797.
17 min - 4 min
- The Confessions of St. Augustine (Book III), by Saint Augustine
Carthage was the playground of the ancient world. In that city of many sins, Augustine was a leader of the revels. His conversion to Christianity amazed those who knew him. (Volume 7, Harvard Classics)
St. Augustine born Nov. 13, 354.
20 min - 9 min
- Paradise Lost (Book IX), by John Milton
Milton's version tells how the Serpent induced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. Eve offered it to Adam. Then they became conscious for the first time that they were not clothed. (Volume 4, Harvard Classics)
John Milton married second wife, Nov. 12, 1656.
34 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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