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Harvard Classics Volume 28 Paperback – November 30, 2009

by Various NULL (Author), Charles W. Eliot (Editor)

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November 30, 2009
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Publisher : ValdeBooks (November 30, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 470 pages
ISBN-10 : 1444454560
ISBN-13 : 978-1444454567
Item Weight : 1.73 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.06 x 9 inches

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Kimmie

Without a proper table of contents, the kindle version of this valuable collection is nearly unusable

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2018

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I remember as a young girl visiting a great aunt who loved books, and spending hours looking at her multi-volume set of “Great Books of the Western World”. I was able to discover great authors and books from several millennia! With this in mind, when I downloaded my kindle purchase of The “Complete Harvard Classics”, I looked forward to browsing through the table of contents and learn what readings had been included in the volume. I was therefore surprised and very disappointed that the table of contents just listed Volume one, Volume two, etc. If I wanted to learn what books were included, that would require painstakingly clicking on volume after volume or looking it up elsewhere.

Fro the time being I have sadly rated this purchase as two stars, but am hoping that the sellers can provide an update with a detailed and usable table of contents. Then I will be happy to upgrade my rating.

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Julie Thompson

How to find the list of volume contents

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2018

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Like most is the other reviewers, I love the content but dislike the lack of information in the table of contents. I did find a list of what each volume contains and bookmarked that list, so this helps a lot.

Go to Volume 50. Click on “Readers Guide to the Harvard Classics”. Scroll back a screen, and you will find the list.

I don’t see why the e-publisher didn’t use this list to build their table of contents page, so that’s why I am giving it 4 instead of 5 stars. But for less than a dollar, it’s still an unbelievable good deal!

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Idolater

The complete Harvard classics at a fantastic price

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2020

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Who would’ve thought? The entire Harvard Classics in one volume at the amazing price of $.99 After purchasing this, I was pleased to be able to read any of the volumes of the with an easily accessible table of contents. I wish I had found this years ago, as it would’ve saved much time searching on the Internet for individual volumes of the Harvard Classics. I look forward to enjoying these on my Kindle. This truly a book lovers dream!

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Jim Casey

Table of Contents is useless, otherwise a steal for the price

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2017

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I've been in the market for a cheap edition of the Harvard Classics ever since Aeterna Press decided to censor entire volumes from the edition I bought from them a few years ago. Yes, that's right...they actually removed content in an update because as a Catholic publisher they felt it wasn't proper to feature works by Darwin, Voltaire, etc. It was a move that seemed to defeat the purpose of the Harvard Classic as the tool of a liberal education it was originally designed to be. If I'd been given the opportunity I would have returned it for a refund and the only reason I didn't press that was because the thing only cost two or three dollars so what the hell. I made it a priority to replace it as soon as another publisher picked up the gauntlet.

Delphi Classics is set to release their own compilation of the Classics and I will buy that even though I've already purchased this Eirann Press version simply because they are the best budget classic literature e-publisher in the business, I probably have 50 of their books at least, and I want to support them. Perhaps their edition will include the original introductions and notes compiler Charles Eliot.

This Eirann Press compilation of the Harvard Classics does not contain the aforementioned extracurricular material but then again neither have any of the HC e-books I've seen. For now it's basically a library of the works on their own...which is fine, everyone should have the opportunity to read the material in these volumes, but the annotations, introductions and such are what gave Harvard Classics collection their novelty as well as their effectiveness, as a whole, in the procuring of a "higher learning" experience.

The chief issue I have with the Eirann Press version is the table of contents. It only lists the volume numbers without offering the pertinent information of title/subject or author. This is a strange oversight in a collection of 51 volumes, not counting the 20 volumes of fiction that are included. For example, instead of saying "Harvard Classics Vol. 10: Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith" it says "Harvard Classics, Vol. 10". I would certainly understand why this would be a dealbreaker for many people but for 99 cents it will do me just fine until the Delphi edition is released.

Other than the contents page everything looks fine, but that reason alone is enough for me to dock it's potential 5 star rating down to 4. Eirann would do well to modify the table in a future update.

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Jesse H.

Alittle wiser, my views and understanding expanded.

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2018

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After reading this I immediately played 14 games of chess in under 3 hours and won them all, I solved world hunger, self driving vehicles, and eliminated fake news and budget deficits. In all honesty its worth the time to read over though it really is amazing to see insight that still proves useful even now.

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Stephen Fleming

There IS a table of contents

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2020

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Maybe the book got updated? Anyhow, I bought it in July 2020 and there is a perfectly standard Table of Contents. Hyperlinked to all the individual volumes. No surprises, no problem.

I don't know how to give a star rating to a collection like this. Some of the volumes are superb, some are terrible. My favorite thing about this version is that it frees up three shelves of my bookcases!

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Osvaldo Cristo

Liberal education

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2019

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Liberal education was a hot theme for several decades but faded strongly on 1960-70. Harvard Classics is an very good tool to go on that way. You will find all the base of our culture in the classics.

Be warned some of the books will require deeper than average English, even for native speakers and can turn in a major challenge for people that not have a such control of the language (as myself because English is only my third language).

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Geoffrey Dewan

Hard to beat for 99 cents

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2018

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The whole thing- all 51 volumes of source texts from the ages including introductions and commentary. Drawback is the Table of Contents only shows "Volume 1", "Volume 2" etc. Would be a LOT more useful if it just listed the authors in each volume. Then again, 2 cents a book, not bad.

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M. Dowden

The Five-Foot Shelf

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 21, 2019

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Charles Willian Eliot is known all over because of this collection, which initially started off as being called the three-foot shelf, but then he later added works of fiction, which added the extra two-foot. Eliot also turned around a certain provincial university, making Harvard a name known throughout the world, and carrying a certain prestige.

In speeches Eliot claimed that anyone could gain a liberal education as such with just reading for fifteen minutes a day and seeing a money-making idea the publishing firm PF Collier and Son challenged him to come up with his selection. Thankfully Eliot did, and working with William Allen Neilson so this was born.

Taking whole texts as well as at times just certain parts from some so you will find a lot to keep you interested here, although I should think that a number of people will have read certain of the texts included here before. A success so people still read this collection of fifty-one volumes and have been encouraged to read more because of it, both with regards to great literature and other subjects. This giving them a broader perspective and understanding, which comes in handy in making you understand the world a lot better and be able to identify problems and solutions.

I know some will find certain pieces here a bit dry, but stick with them, because you do not know what knowledge these will impart to you. This edition has fully active tables of contents, along with footnotes, but I should point out that not all the texts here are in the same font and size, so please be aware of that. In all this does make for an interesting, and if you have not read certain pieces before, an enlightening read. The only thing that can be said against this is that Eliot made a presumption in that if you could read then you were able to comprehend, which may well have been the case in his day, but nowadays, you only have to look at what some people put down on this site, and you realise that they may have read a book, but actually have no idea what it is about.

If you want to expand your mind, and also at the same time start questioning things, then this is an ideal collection for you, and so hopefully this will make you a bit more wary of the ways that we are bombarded with all the time, and make you a bit more discerning and thoughtful when it comes to making a correct decision as you separate fact from fiction.

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Richard Johnston

one volume (no 39) is lacking in a useful active table of contents making selection of specific essays ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2016

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The advantage of this edition over the two much less expensive versions is that all footnotes are included and typographical modifications such as italics are retained. So why do I give it only two stars? The reason is that at least,one volume (no 39) is lacking in a useful active table of contents making selection of specific essays quite difficult. One could, of course, go through the volume and bookmark each selection--a time-consuming operation which the reader should not be required to slog through. It is possible that this fault occurs in other volumes too, though I haven't checked them out. But for the price one should not run into problems like this. The two cheaper editions have functional tables of content.
It would also be very helpful if the footnotes were immediately accessible as in other books of this type, such as Burton's translations of "The Arabian Nights", Unfortunately, I discovered this fault some time after I bought this edition and cannot ask for a refund. I can only hope that corrections will be made by the publishers.

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A. Cadwallender

A wealth of wisdom and literature for less than the price of a newspaper.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2018

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In this incredible collection of classic literature you will find works by Plato, Epictetus, Milton, Emerson, Saint Augustine, Thomas a Kempis, Sophocles, Euripides, Cicero, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Cervantes, Dante, and much much more, plus novels by Fielding, Dickens, Jane Austen, Victor Hugo, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and more. To have all of this to carry around with you wherever you go, and dip into it whenever you like is quite incredible. The only drawback is the absence of an overall index, so you will need to write out your own and keep it with your Kindle. But you really can't complain at such a wealth of wisdom for so little money.

G Whiteman

Junk

Reviewed in Australia on February 22, 2020

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No index , all dumped together . You'd need to be desperate for a read to by this .

Redherring

Very good collection

Reviewed in Canada on September 6, 2018

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Very good collection. The wireless delivery took a bit of time though.

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