Harvard Classics Volume 28: Essays English and American (Illustrated)

Harvard Classics Volume 28: Essays English and American (Illustrated)

Harvard Classics Volume 28: Essays English and American (Illustrated)

Harvard Classics Volume 28: Essays English and American (Illustrated)

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Overview

*Includes a Table of Contents
*Illustrated with images of the authors

The Harvard Classics series is an incredible collection of the most important literary works, compiled by Charles Eliot (1834 – 1926), then president of Harvard University. Eliot stated that a liberal arts education could be supplemented by reading 15 minutes a day from classic works stored on a five foot shelf. For this reason, the series is also known as the Five Foot Shelf.

Volume 28 contains classic essays by American and British writers of the past few centuries, including the following works:

Jonathan Swift by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe
The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold
Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin
John Milton by Walter Bagehot
Abraham Lincoln and Democracy by James Russell Lowell
Truth of Intercourse and Samuel Pepys by Robert Louis Stevenson
On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by William Ellery Channing
Science and Culture by Thomas Huxley
Race and Language by Edward Augustus Freeman

Product Details

BN ID: 2940013524453
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Publication date: 11/22/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 871 KB

About the Author

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was orphaned at the age of three and adopted by a wealthy Virginia family with whom he had a troubled relationship. He excelled in his studies of language and literature at school, and self-published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in 1827. In 1830, Poe embarked on a career as a writer and began contributing reviews and essays to popular periodicals. He also wrote sketches and short fiction, and in 1833 published his only completed novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Over the next five years he established himself as a master of the short story form through the publication of "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other well–known works. In 1841, he wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," generally considered the first modern detective story. The publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845 brought him additional fame as a poet.
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