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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
Episodes
Oct 12, 2021
Oct 12, 2021
1 min
Introductory note on American Historical Documents (Volume 43, Harvard Classics)
Oct 12, 2021
Oct 12, 2021
20 min
Historical documents, now priceless, were often used as wrapping paper. Rescued by chance was a letter of Columbus telling of his voyages - of the amazing bargains made with timid natives -- of Amazon women who fought like men and made marriage treaties with cannibals. (Volume 43, Harvard Classics)
It's Columbus Day!
Oct 11, 2021
Oct 11, 2021
Oct 11, 2021
23 min
Æneas, mythological founder of the Roman race, leaving Carthage and its lovely Queen Dido, was driven by a storm to the coast of Sicily. There the hospitality of King Acestes helped him to forget his relinquished love. (Volume 13, Harvard Classics)
Oct 10, 2021
Oct 10, 2021
3 min
Introductory note on Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Volume 14, Harvard Classics)
Oct 10, 2021
Oct 10, 2021
30 min
The romance-stricken Don Quixote sees a fair youth seated by the side of a stream, "his feet like two crystals, his hands like snowflakes." The youth was a charming girl! (Volume 14, Harvard Classics)
Cervantes aided in the capture of Tunis, Oct. 10, 1573.
Oct 9, 2021
Oct 9, 2021
2 min
Introductory note on Sarah Flower Adams (The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature)
Oct 9, 2021
Oct 9, 2021
23 min
Do you know that many of your favorite hymns have echoed for hundreds of years through vast cathedrals, and resounded from the walls of Jericho during the Crusades? (Volume 45, Harvard Classics)
Newman, author of "Lead, Kindly Light," baptized Oct. 9, 1845.
Oct 9, 2021
Oct 9, 2021
4 min
Introductory note on Henry Fielding (The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature)
Oct 9, 2021
Oct 9, 2021
19 min
Fielding wrote a lengthy story to burlesque a novel of Richardson. But the travesty overshot its mark. Instead of a mere parody, it became a masterpiece. (Volume 39, Harvard Classics)
Henry Fielding died Oct. 8, 1764.