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“Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.” - Italo Calvino

Charles William Elliot claimed that you could get all the elements of a liberal education by spending only 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that all fit within the confines of a five-foot shelf. To prove this, he also selected the appropriate books and so the Harvard Classics were born. Now, thanks to ebooks, you don’t even need the five-foot shelf to enjoy them.

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FEATURED AUTHOR - After graduating from Duke University, Glen Dawson owned and operated a flexible packaging manufacturing plant for 23 years. Then, he sold the factory and went back to school to get his Master's degree in biostatistics from Boston University. When he moved to North Carolina, he opened an after-school learning academy for advanced math students in grades 2 through 12. After growing the academy from 30 to 430 students, he sold it to Art of Problem Solving. Since retiring from Art of Problem… Read more