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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
May 10, 2022
May 10, 2022
May 10, 2022
34 min
Savages who drink the powdered bones of their dead mixed with wine, Amazons who hold riotous festivals, the worship of golden statues, all the primitive wonders of Guiana are described by the famous Elizabethan gallant, Sir Walter Raleigh. (Volume 33, Harvard Classics)
May 9, 2022
May 9, 2022
44 sec
Introductory note on J. C. Friedrich von Schiller (Volume 32, Harvard Classics)
May 9, 2022
May 9, 2022
42 min
Who has ever thought the arts had anything to do with freedom? Schiller did. Forced by a German noble to enter a military school, he escaped. Struggling to achieve freedom, he wrote a series of letters on the relation of art to freedom. (Volume 32, Harvard Classics)
Friedrich von Schiller died May 9, 1805.
May 8, 2022
May 8, 2022
2 min
Introductory note on Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Volume 18, Harvard Classics)
May 8, 2022
May 8, 2022
26 min
Lady Teazle hides in haste when her husband is unexpectedly announced. Situations which set many tongues wagging and fed the fire of gossip in Scandal-land, startle the reader. (Volume 18, Harvard Classics)
"School for Scandal" produced at Drury Lane, May 8, 1777.
May 7, 2022
May 7, 2022
2 min
Introductory note on Robert Browning (the Ridpath Library of Universal Literature)
May 7, 2022
May 7, 2022
9 min
A haughty aristocrat, who murdered his wife for enjoying life more than he, now bargaining for a new bride; a crafty bishop begging and bullying his heirs for a tomb richer than that of his rival; these are subjects of Browning's pen. (Volume 42, Harvard Classics)
Robert Browning born May 7, 1812.
May 6, 2022
May 6, 2022
May 6, 2022
29 min
"Benvenuto, the figure cannot succeed in bronze," so spoke the patron Duke. Cellini, stung to fury, passionately burst out: "You do not understand art." Feverishly he began the casting of the statue --- but read his own account of the tilt with the Duke. (Volume 31, Harvard Classics)