Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Harvard Classics
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Harvard Classics
Harvard Classics episodes
- Introductory Note: Sir Walter Raleigh
Introductory note on Sir Walter Raleigh (Volume 33, Harvard Classics)
3 min - The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh
The famous gallant who spread his gorgeous cloak so the dainty slipper of his queen would be unspotted, soon lost the high favor this action won for him. In spite of his glorious voyages, Raleigh condemned himself when he fell in love with another woman. (Volume 33, Harvard Classics)
Sir WaIter Raleigh imprisoned July 19, 1603.
21 min - Introductory Note: Robert Browning
Introductory note on Robert Browning (Volume 18, Harvard Classics)
3 min - A Blot in the ’Scutcheon (Act I), by Robert Browning
"Browning's play has thrown me into a perfect passion of sorrow," wrote Charles Dickens of "The Blot in the 'Scutcheon." Like Shakespeare's Juliet, Browning's Mildred plays the role of a youthful lover in a tragic drama. (Volume 18, Harvard Classics)
18 min - 3 min
- Phædra (Act I), by Jean Racine
Phædre first persecuted Hippolytus, her handsome stepson, then loved him. Suddenly he and her own son became rivals for the throne. Should she push her son's claims or let Hippolytus take the crown? (Volume 26, Harvard Classics)
Racine elected to French Academy, July 17, 1673.
22 min - 3 min
- The Koran (The Chapter of Mary)
The sacred book of the Moslems, the Koran, gives an account of the birth of Christ. The Koran gives Jesus a high position among the prophets but holds the first place for Mohammed. (Volume 45, Harvard Classics)
Beginning of Moslem era of time, July 16, 622 A. D.
14 min - Introductory Note: William Harrison
Introductory note on William Harrison (Volume 35, Harvard Classics)
2 min - Holinshed’s Chronicles (Chapter VI: Of the Food and Diet of the English)
Meals in the houses of the gentry and noblemen in Elizabethan England were taken most seriously. No one spoke. Holinshed records the strange table etiquette of our ancestors. (Volume 35, Harvard Classics)
Queen Elizabeth entertained at Kenilworth, July 15, 1575.
36 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
More shows like Harvard Classics
Literature and History
1,474 Listeners
The Daily
111,791 Listeners
Catholic Culture Audiobooks
107 Listeners