Harvard Classics Volume 28: Essays English and American

*Includes a Table of Contents
*Illustrated with images of authors

The 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. 
Volume 28 contains literary classics by American and British writers of the past few centuries, including the following works: 
Jonathan Swift by William Makepeace Thackeray 
The Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe
The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
The Study of Poetry by Matthew Arnold
Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin
John Milton by Walter Bagehot
Abraham Lincoln and Democracy by James Russell Lowell
Truth of Intercourse and Samuel Pepys by Robert Louis Stevenson
On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by William Ellery Channing
Science and Culture by Thomas Huxley
Race and Language by Edward Augustus Freeman