Talk:Harvard Classics

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I was strongly tempted to make the sentence about Malcolm X read:

Malcolm X claimed to have the entire set when he was in prison, which, if true, would make him the only human being in history to have done so.

Goodness, what a tedious set of books to plow through! Personally, I would have been stopped dead in my tracks right at the start of Volume 1 by Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, which I did try to read once, and believe me the word is "try," not "succeed."

I know there are those who claim to have read Paradise Lost with enjoyment, but me, I'm with the character in Butler's The Way of All Flesh, who, when informed that "Milton ... only got five pounds for 'Paradise Lost'" replied "And a great deal too much. I would have given him twice as much myself not to have written it at all."

I suppose that I could read the whole set—but I believe you would have to put me in prison, with nothing else to read, in order to get me to do it. Dpbsmith 23:15, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Junior Classics

I do actually have a copy of the Harvard Classics' Odyssey from the original 1909 printing. Calls itself "The Five Foot Shelf of Books" and in the back announces the upcoming publication of "The Junior Classics," a Harvard Classics-like series intended for children. Does anyone know if it was ever actually published?--tronDB 14:21, 28 July 2006 (UTC)