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- Introductory Note: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Introductory note on Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Volume 26, Harvard Classics)
4 min - Life Is a Dream (Act I, Scene I), by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Disguised as a man, a Russian noblewoman exploring the mountains of Poland came upon a secret prison. Fate linked the lives of this woman and the unknown prisoner. (Volume 26, Harvard Classics)
Calderon, after a life of adventure, died May 5, 1681.
28 min - Introductory Note: Thomas Henry Huxley
Introductory note on Thomas Henry Huxley (Volume 28, Harvard Classics)
2 min - Science and Culture, by Thomas Henry Huxley
When science was struggling for a place in popular education, Huxley distinguished himself as its champion. While the arts were to beautify life and increase pleasure, Huxley saw science as a means of benefiting man's prosperity. (Volume 28, Harvard Classics)
Huxley born May 4, 1825.
25 min - Introductory Note: Niccolo Machiavelli
Introductory note on Niccolo Machiavelli (Volume 36, Harvard Classics)
4 min - The Prince (Ch. 1-3), by Niccolo Machiavelli
Traveling from court to court in the stirring days of the Renaissance, Machiavelli studied the intrigues of princes. His writings have affected the destiny of mighty dynasties. (Volume 36, Harvard Classics)
Machiavelli born May 3, 1469.
22 min - Introductory Note: Michael Faraday
Introductory note on Michael Faraday (Volume 30, Harvard Classics)
4 min - Magnetism—Electricity, by Michael Faraday
Everything has to have a beginning, so too with the science of electricity. Here we learn the very rudiments, the inceptions of science that have revolutionized the world. Faraday explains in a simple way the truths of electricity. (Volume 30, Harvard Classics)
21 min - Introductory Note: William Hazlitt
Introductory note on William Hazlitt (Volume 27, Harvard Classics)
2 min - Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen, by William Hazlitt
Once Hazlitt and his friends took to discussing the famous people they would like to meet --- Guy Fawkes, Sir Isaac Newton, Chaucer, Boccaccio, Cromwell, Garrick, and Judas. (Volume 27, Harvard Classics)
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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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