
Harvard Classics Volume 19
1909
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Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf." Volume 19 contains 4 works: Faust, Part 1 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Charles William Eliot
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Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term as president in the university's history.