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Harvard Classics The Five Foot Shelf of Books, Volume 26: Continental Drama: Calderon, Carneille, Racine, Moliere, Lessing, Schiller
by Charles W. Eliot, Editor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: P.F.Collier & Son, 1959. Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back Fifty-Second Printing, 1959, of the 1909 Original Edition. Hardcover Book in NEAR FINE Condition. Bound in forest green leather with gilt shield, decoration and titles on the spine; blind-stamped shield and ruffled lines on front. No jacket, as issued. Registered edition with Introduction and Notes. Very clean, no marks, tight, square, solid sewn binding. Faint bump to lower corners. Frontis: Moliere in Audience with Louis XIV at Versailles. Pages very clean and free from any markings, no creasing, faintly toned, fine condition. Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf of Books originally published in 1909 is a 50 volume anthology of classic works from world literature. This anthology originated from a challenge made by P. F. Collier to Dr. Eliot based on speeches he made stating that a good liberal education could be had by reading 15 minutes a day from a collection of books that could fit on a five foot shelf. Collier challenged him to make good on this statement by selecting such a collection of works--the Harvard Classics were the result. This volume imcludes "Life is a Dream" by Pedro Calderond la Barca; "Polyeucte" by Pierre Corneille; "Phaeda" by Jean Baptiste Racine; "Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite" by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere; "Minna von Barnhelm, or The Soldier's Fortune" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; and "William Tell" by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. 489 pages. 8.6 x 5.7 inches. P.F.Collier & Son, New York, 1959.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021162
- Title
- Harvard Classics The Five Foot Shelf of Books, Volume 26: Continental Drama: Calderon, Carneille, Racine, Moliere, Lessing, Schiller
- Author
- Charles W. Eliot, Editor
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- P.F.Collier & Son
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- DRAMA THEATRE STAGE PLAYS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Plays,Drama,Theatre;
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