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Every revolutionary age produces its own kind of nostalgia. Faced with the enormous social and economic upheavals at the nineteenth century’s end, learned Victorians like Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and Matthew Arnold looked to High Church models and played the bishops of Western culture, with a monkish devotion to preserving and transmitting old texts and traditions and turning back to simpler ways of life. Mac app to merge gif with pic. It was in 1909, the nadir of this milieu, before the advent of modernism and world war, that The Harvard Classics took shape. Compiled by Harvard’s president Charles W. Eliot and called at first Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf, the compendium of literature, philosophy, and the sciences, writes Adam Kirsch in Harvard Magazine, served as a “monument from a more humane and confident time” (or so its upper classes believed), and a “time capsule…. In 50 volumes.”
What does the massive collection preserve? For one thing, writes Kirsch, it’s “a record of what President Eliot’s America, and his Harvard, thought best in their own heritage.” Eliot’s intentions for his work differed somewhat from those of his English peers. Rather than simply curating for posterity “the best that has been thought and said” (in the words of Matthew Arnold), Eliot meant his anthology as a “portable university”—a pragmatic set of tools, to be sure, and also, of course, a product. He suggested that the full set of texts might be divided into a set of six courses on such conservative themes as “The History of Civilization” and “Religion and Philosophy,” and yet, writes Kirsch, “in a more profound sense, the lesson taught by the Harvard Classics is ‘Progress.'” “Eliot’s [1910] introduction expresses complete faith in the ‘intermittent and irregular progress from barbarism to civilization.'”
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In its expert synergy of moral uplift and marketing, The Harvard Classics Teamviewer mac multiple users. (find links to download them as free ebooks below) belong as much to Mark Twain’s bourgeois gilded age as to the pseudo-aristocratic age of Victoria—two sides of the same ocean, one might say.
The idea for the collection didn’t initially come from Eliot, but from two editors at the publisher P.F. Collier, who intended “a commercial enterprise from the beginning” after reading a speech Eliot gave to a group of workers in which he “declared that a five-foot shelf of books could provide”
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Collier asked Eliot to “pick the titles” and they would publish them as a series. The books appealed to the upwardly mobile and those hungry for knowledge and an education denied them, but the cost would still have been prohibitive to many. Over a hundred years, and several cultural-evolutionary steps later, and anyone with an internet connection can read all of the 51-volume set online. In a previous post, Dan Colman summarized the number of ways to get your hands on Charles W. Eliot’s anthology:
You can still buy an old set off of eBay for $399 [now $299.99]. But, just as easily, you can head to the Internet Archiveand Project Gutenberg, which have centralized links to every text included in The Harvard Classics (Wealth of Nations, Origin of Species, Plutarch’s Lives, the list goes on below). Please note that the previous two links won’t give you access to the actual annotated Harvard Classics texts edited by Eliot himself. But if you want just that, you can always click here and get digital scans of the true Harvard Classics.
In addition to these options, Bartleby has digital texts of the entire collection of what they call “the most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time.” But wait, there’s more! Much more, in fact, since Eliot and his assistant William A. Neilson compiled an additional twenty volumes called the “Shelf of Fiction.” Read those twenty volumes—at fifteen minutes a day—starting with Henry Fielding and ending with Norwegian novelist Alexander Kielland at Bartleby.
What may strike modern readers of Eliot’s collection are precisely the “blind spots in Victorian notions of culture and progress” that it represents. For example, those three harbingers of doom for Victorian certitude—Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud—are nowhere to be seen. Omissions like this are quite telling, but, as Kirsch writes, we might not look at Eliot’s achievement as a relic of a naively optimistic age, but rather as “an inspiring testimony to his faith in the possibility of democratic education without the loss of high standards.” This was, and still remains, a noble ideal, if one that---like the utopian dreams of the Victorians---can sometimes seem frustratingly unattainable (or culturally imperialist). But the widespread availability of free online humanities certainly brings us closer than Eliot's time could ever come.
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Project Gutenberg is a site which contains public domain books - based on U.S Copyright laws - generally anything before 1923. http://gutenberg.org/ It has most of the classics of sci-fi for download. Currently there are various 'newer' sci-fi e-books appearing on the site, various short stories from Other worlds magazine so: Diagnosis by R. A. Palmer What do you read by Boyd Ellanby The Machine that floats by Joe Gibson Also Lord Tedric by E.E. 'Doc' Smith First Lensman by E.E. 'Doc' Smith There are more books coming through proof-reading so there will be various others appearing in the coming weeks.
That's neat, Jo. I love Gutenberg. There are a couple of other public domain sites to keep in mind. Australia has its own Project Gutenberg with their copyright laws: http://gutenberg.net.au/ They don't have as many books, but since the copyright laws are different, so are some of the books. For instance, Robert E. Howard only has Red Nails on gutenberg.org while the Australian one has dozens of his stories last time I looked. The Internet Archive http://archive.org has a lot of books, but also other copyright free media including old time radio shows, radio & TV news clips, & even movies. 'Attack of the Giant Leeches' is on there! It's a bit dark, but still fun to watch. They have torrent downloads for the OTR programs like X-minus One, Dimension X, & plenty more.
I've gotten books from project Gutenberg on occasion. I checked Project Gutenberg for Metroplis, the front runner in the poll for our monthly read. Unfortunately, it was published after 1923. Gutenberg does have a copy of The Metropolis, by Upton Sinclair. My library has a DVD of the restored film, but not the book. It's my understanding that the book was written from the film, so if we discuss Metropolis, I may have to watch the visual version.
Buck, it's on Gutenberg.net.au http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601.. ![]()
Buck wrote: 'My library has a DVD of the restored film, but not the book..' The film itself is fantastic, i'd highly recommend it. It's a silent film from the 1927 so will probably not appeal to everyone but the art deco sets are wonderful. It's going to make a change to read the book of a film I really like not the other way around. The book itself is also at the internet archive, i've downloaded it for my Kindle but the formatting is a bit bizarre. https://archive.org/details/Metropoli..
I've seen the old silent film several times & still have it on VHS. It's definitely a classic worth watching. I've never read it, though.
Jo wrote: 'The book itself is also at the internet archive, i've downloaded it for my Kindle but the formatting is a bit bizarre. https://archive.org/details/Metropoli..' Thanks Jo - If it becomes our selected book for September, I now have it on my Kindle.
Jim wrote: 'Buck, it's on Gutenberg.net.au http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601..' Thanks Jim That's good to know about the different copyright laws in Australia. I couln't figure out how to download Metropolis to my Kindle. It looks like I would have to read it in a browser, as if it were a PDF.
Jo's link was better for you then. I generally just print the page to PDF using a free utility call 'CutePDF' & save it. I use Calibre for all my ebooks & it converts them to mobi format automatically. The remastered film can also be watched or downloaded from Archive.org https://archive.org/details/Metropoli..
There are a couple of new scifi books on PG: Junior by Robert Albernathy http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49809 The Lights on Precipe Peak by Stephen Tall http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49826
A couple more new e-books: Operation Interstellar by George. O. Smith http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50406 Master Of Life And Death by Robert Silverberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50441 Recruit for Andromeda by Milton Lesser http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50449
I'm not familiar with Smith or Lesser. Robert Silverberg is a first class author.
Buck wrote: 'I'm not familiar with Smith or Lesser. Robert Silverberg is a first class author.' I don't know the other two either, i'm sure i've read Silverberg before a long time ago but I can't remember what. He has written a huge number of books.
Another new one: Falcons of Narabedla by Marion Zimmer Bradley http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50566
Some more from well know authors: The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50571 A Thousand Below Zero by Murray Leinster http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50585
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The Secret Martians by Jack Sharkey http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50668 The Planet Mappers by E. Everett Evans http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50682
Thank you everyone for the information...I'm so happy to see this as I have them listed as one of my go-to libraries but I never would have suspected sci-fi as part of their collection. Oh I have a specific book to check on..
Jo wrote: 'The Planet Mappers by E Everet Evans http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50682' That should be E. Everett Evans. Man of Many Minds is an old favorite of mine by him & it's available on Gutenberg, too.
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Jim wrote: 'Jo wrote: ' That should be E. Everett Evans. Man of Many Minds is an old..' Oops edited to correct, thanks. I don't know if anyone is aware of the TPP partnership but if this is implemented in the US it can have some impact on the books that are available in the public domain particularly some of the more recent books. It's possible that some books currently in the public domain will become unavailable - copyright would change to 70 years after the authors death rather than before 1923 (and the other rules), although other books would become available. So it's probably a good idea to download anything you want to read. If anybody is interested there is an article here from a group against the change: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12.. ![]()
Thanks, Jo. That's just what we need, more copyright BS. That should give piracy another boost. :(
There is a lot more sci-fi being published on Project Gutenburg. Basically the stories in Galaxy magazine where copyright has expired are being published. As there are going to be lots, i'm not going to list them all, you can always check the latest releases here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc.. If anybody has any interest in helping with the proof-reading of them, they are all being run via http://www.pgdp.net/ This is a feeder site to project gutenburg and produces all types of books. Farmer Philip Jose Torrent
A couple of new items on the copyright front from the Internet Archive (archive.org). The Internet Archive is now leveraging a little known, and perhaps never used, provision of US copyright law, Section 108h, which allows libraries to scan and make available materials published 1923 to 1941 if they are not being actively sold. https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/b.. The Boston Public Library announced the transfer of significant holdings from its Sound Archives Collection to the Internet Archive, which will digitize, preserve and make these recordings accessible to the public. The Boston Public Library (BPL) sound collection includes hundreds of thousands of audio recordings in a variety of historical formats, including wax cylinders, 78 rpms, and LPs. http://blog.archive.org/2017/10/11/bo.. These initiatives plus the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine are preserving & making a lot of historical material available. Here's a pretty good explanation of why this is so important: http://blog.archive.org/2017/10/13/th.. Download Torrent Phillip Jose Farmer Mobile Home
Jim wrote: 'A couple of new items on the copyright front from the Internet Archive (archive.org). The Internet Archive is now leveraging a little known, and perhaps never used, provision of US copyright law, S..' Cool! Thanks for sharing, Jim. Matt back to top Download Torrent Phillip Jose Farmer Mobile Home Park
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