The Harvard Classics

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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. It was in 1909, the nadir of this milieu, before the advent of modernism and world war, that The Harvard Classics took shape."

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See Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952), (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990), at Britannica, Wikipedia, and at Logos (second edition).