A Year with Dr. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf of Books
by Zachary Garrett
June 20, 2022 8:43 am
A Year With…is a weekly podcast that explores the “old books” in a spirit of curiosity and discovery. For 2022, we will be reading selections from the Harvard Classics (also known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf of Books), which is an anthology of influential works compiled and published in the early 20th century.
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