The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me about Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything (Hardcover) by Christopher Beha

from SamanthaMarie

A memoir along the lines of spending one year doing something and then writing a book about it. The author decides to read the Five Foot Harvard Classics bookshelf in one year. He does this mostly for a sense of connection with his ancestors, and along the way learns a lot about himself, his fami...

from mstrust

A memoir by a young man who quit his office job and moved back in with his parents after recovering from cancer, and rediscovered his grandmother's complete collection of Harvard Classics. He set a goal for himself: in one year he will have completed all 51 volumes. Separated by months, Beha rela...

from toastron

Here's your assignment if you wish to take it. Your brain will explode in ten weeks. Read 22 thousand pages of Harvard's (1909) list of books which would educate the uneducated. You MUST have a pen and paper near while you read this digest. It has treasure after treasure. I have never read the Cl...

from debnance

Beha has had much illness in his young life. Beha has had much loss in his young life. When he lost his job and moved him, he decided to challenge himself to read the entire set of Harvard Classics, a collection of books selected to enhance the education of the common man at a time when few peopl...

from BookAngel_a

Beha decides to dedicate a year of his life to reading the 50 or so red volumes of Harvard Classics. He's always wanted to read them 'one day', but he's more motivated when he learns that his grandmother read them all...and said that they taught her a lot about life. Oh, and Beha's life isn't goi...