{"product_id":"9781616400507","title":"Letters Of Marcus Tullius Cicero With His Treatises On Friendship And Old Age; Letters Of Pliny The Younger","description":"Translator names not noted above: E.S. Shuckburgh, William Melmoth, F.C.T. Bosanquet\u003cp\u003eOriginally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name \"Harvard Classics,\" this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as \"Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf,\" it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume IX features:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• three works by Roman philosopher MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO (106 BC-43 BC): the dialogue On Friendship, a timeless consideration of that happy state; the essay On Old Age, his reflections on aging and death; and his Letters, including his thoughts on matters both personal and political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• the Letters of Roman lawyer PLINY THE YOUNGER (61-c. 112), which remain some of the most valuable firsthand documents we have of the period, particularly since he moved in politically important circles; the letters include his eyewitness account of the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cosimo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50079308284144,"sku":"9781616400507","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616400507","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}