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Overview
Join me reading Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf (no time limit).
From Blackwell's:
The original Five Foot Bookshelf was compiled in 1909 by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot. Conceived of as a 'portable university', the 50-volume collection consisted of a series of classic works from world literature, important speeches, and historical documents. This small library would offer a reader the benefits of a liberal education, entertainment and counsel of history's greatest creative minds.
From Blackwell's:
The original Five Foot Bookshelf was compiled in 1909 by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot. Conceived of as a 'portable university', the 50-volume collection consisted of a series of classic works from world literature, important speeches, and historical documents. This small library would offer a reader the benefits of a liberal education, entertainment and counsel of history's greatest creative minds.
For our Five Foot Bookshelf, we present our modern take on a classic concept – 70 books to make us think and bring us joy, as we wander restlessly through time, place and imagination. We hope that our collection captures the attentions of book lovers everywhere and sparks a thousand conversations...
The new selection has been put together by a panel of booksellers and writers after a voting process which took place throughout 2020.
https://milled.com/blackwell-books/blackwells-five-foot-bookshelf-nVus-gGFOb-vCXCZ
See also the Five Foot Bookshelf for Students announced in September 2021 here.
10 books (marked with *) appear on both lists. Five other authors appear on both lists but for different works (Primo Levi, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Karl Marx, Rebecca Solnit).
Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf 2021
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Overview
Join me reading Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf (no time limit).
From Blackwell's:
The original Five Foot Bookshelf was compiled in 1909 by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot. Conceived of as a 'portable university', the 50-volume collection consisted of a series of classic works from world literature, important speeches, and historical documents. This small library would offer a reader the benefits of a liberal education, entertainment and counsel of history's greatest creative minds.
From Blackwell's:
The original Five Foot Bookshelf was compiled in 1909 by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot. Conceived of as a 'portable university', the 50-volume collection consisted of a series of classic works from world literature, important speeches, and historical documents. This small library would offer a reader the benefits of a liberal education, entertainment and counsel of history's greatest creative minds.
For our Five Foot Bookshelf, we present our modern take on a classic concept – 70 books to make us think and bring us joy, as we wander restlessly through time, place and imagination. We hope that our collection captures the attentions of book lovers everywhere and sparks a thousand conversations...
The new selection has been put together by a panel of booksellers and writers after a voting process which took place throughout 2020.
https://milled.com/blackwell-books/blackwells-five-foot-bookshelf-nVus-gGFOb-vCXCZ
See also the Five Foot Bookshelf for Students announced in September 2021 here.
10 books (marked with *) appear on both lists. Five other authors appear on both lists but for different works (Primo Levi, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Karl Marx, Rebecca Solnit).
