{"product_id":"2940013524453","title":"Harvard Classics Volume 28: Essays English and American (Illustrated)","description":"*Includes a Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e*Illustrated with images of the authors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume 28 contains classic essays by American and British writers of the past few centuries, including the following works: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Swift by William Makepeace Thackeray \u003cbr\u003eThe Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003eThe Idea of a University by John Henry Newman\u003cbr\u003eWalking by Henry David Thoreau\u003cbr\u003eThe Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold\u003cbr\u003eSesame and Lilies by John Ruskin\u003cbr\u003eJohn Milton by Walter Bagehot\u003cbr\u003eAbraham Lincoln and Democracy by James Russell Lowell\u003cbr\u003eTruth of Intercourse and Samuel Pepys by Robert Louis Stevenson\u003cbr\u003eOn the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by William Ellery Channing\u003cbr\u003eScience and Culture by Thomas Huxley\u003cbr\u003eRace and Language by Edward Augustus Freeman","brand":"Charles River Editors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070091706608,"sku":"2940013524453","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013524453_p0.jpg?v=1763581981","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013524453","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}