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- Walt Disney: "We had a set of the Harvard Classics in the bookshelf of our Library, which, together with the guest room behind it became our projection room when he began So Dear To My Heart and Song of the South. The bookshelves stayed. That's where I found David Copperfield and Vanity Fair." source ↗
Summary
A fifty-volume anthology of world literature compiled in 1909 by Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, who claimed that every college graduate should have read its contents — and that anyone who read fifteen minutes a day from the set could obtain a liberal education. The collection spans philosophy, poetry, drama, history, and science, from Plato and Plutarch to Darwin and Franklin.