<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Harvard Classics Reading Calendar on Teddy Rook Book</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/calendar/</link><description>Recent content in Harvard Classics Reading Calendar on Teddy Rook Book</description><image><title>Teddy Rook Book</title><url>https://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpg</url><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpg</link></image><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/calendar/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>January 1: Franklin’s Advice for the New Year</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 1: Benjamin Franklin, Franklin’s Autobiography (Volume 1, pages 79–85), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 2: School-Day Poems of John Milton</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 2: John Milton, Milton’s Poems (Volume 4, pages 7–18), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 3: Cicero on Friendship</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 3: Cicero, Cicero On Friendship (Volume 9, pages 16–26), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 4: A Flounder Fish Story</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 4: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Volume 17, pages 83–90), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 5: The Soaring Eagle and Contented Stork</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 5: Giuseppe Mazzini, Mazzini’s Byron and Goethe (Volume 32, pages 377–396), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 6: Warned by Hector’s Ghost</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 6: Virgil, Virgil’s Æneid (Volume 13, pages 109–127), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 7: If He Yawned, She Lost Her Head!</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 7: The Thousand and One Nights (Volume 16, pages 5–13), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 8: Trying the Patience of Job</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 8: The Book of Job (Volume 44, pages 71–87), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 9: A Treasure Hunt in Nombre de Dios</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 9: Philip Nichols, Nichol’s Sir Francis Drake Revived (Volume 33, pages 135–145), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 10: Where Love Lies Waiting</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 10: Euripides, Euripides’ The Bacchae (Volume 8, pages 368–372), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 11: Hamilton—Father of Wall Street</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 11: Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist (Volume 43, pages 199–207), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 12: What Is Good Taste?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 12: Edmund Burke, Burke On Taste (Volume 24, pages 11–26), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 13: Rousseau Seeks Sanctuary in England</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 13: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau’s Inquiry on Inequality (Volume 34, pages 215–228), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 14: The First Step Toward Independence</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 14: The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (Volume 43, pages 60–65), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 15: “The Moving Finger Writes”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 15: Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Volume 41, pages 943–953), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 16: The Old Woman and the Wine Jar</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 16: Æsop, Æsop’s Fables (Volume 17, pages 43–44) and Æsop, Æsop’s Fables (Volume 17, pages 31–43), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 17: Franklin’s Family Tree</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 17: Benjamin Franklin, Franklin’s Autobiography (Volume 1, pages 5–15), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 18: Origin of Yale “Brekekekex-Ko-ax”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 18: Aristophanes, Aristophanes’ The Frogs (Volume 8, pages 439–449), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 19: Poe on Poetry</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 19: Edgar Allan Poe, Poe’s The Poetic Principle (Volume 28, pages 371–380), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 20: “Ah! It Is St. Agnes’ Eve—”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 20: John Keats, Keats’ Eve of St. Agnes (Volume 41, pages 883–893), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 21: The Nightingale’s Healing Melody</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 21: Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen’s Tales (Volume 17, pages 301–310), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 22: A King’s Pleasure Now Yours</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 22: Pierre Corneille, Corneille’s Polyeucte (Volume 26, pages 77–87), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 23: Pascal Knew Men and Triangles</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 23: Blaise Pascal, Pascal’s The Art of Persuasion (Volume 48, pages 400–411), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 24: Odysseus Silenced the Sirens</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 24: Homer, Homer’s Odyssey (Volume 22, pages 165–173), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 25: A Field Mouse Made Famous</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 25: Robert Burns, To a Mouse and Burns’ other poems (Volume 6, pages 119–120) and Robert Burns, To a Mouse and Burns’ other poems (Volume 6, pages 388–394), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 26: In the Cradle of Civilization</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 26: Herodotus, Herodotus’ An Account of Egypt (Volume 33, pages 65–75), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 27: Dante and Beatrice in Paradise</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 27: Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Divine Comedy (Volume 20, pages 267–279), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 28: Man’s Wings</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 28: Thomas à Kempis, Thomas à Kempis (Volume 7, pages 242–249), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 29: Visits the Land of Fire</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 29: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle (Volume 29, pages 209–221), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 30: First Problem Play Popular</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-30/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-30/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 30: Sophocles, Sophocles’ Antigone (Volume 8, pages 255–266), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>January 31: What “Don Quixote” Really Slew</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-31/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/january-31/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for January 31: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (Volume 14, pages 60–67), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 1: King Arthur’s Knights Find Holy Grail</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 1: Sir Thomas Malory, Malory’s The Holy Grail (Volume 35, pages 112–123), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 2: “Apparel Oft Proclaims the Man”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 2: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Volume 46, pages 107–120), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 3: A House of Mirth and Revelry</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 3: Ben Jonson, Jonson’s The Alchemist (Volume 47, pages 543–558), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 4: “Genius, a Secret to Itself”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 4: Thomas Carlyle, Carlyle’s Characteristics (Volume 25, pages 319–327), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 5: Diamonds, Diamonds Everywhere!</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 5: The Thousand and One Nights (Volume 16, pages 243–250), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 6: Charles Lamb Suggests To-day’s Reading</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 6: Christopher Marlowe, Marlowe’s Edward the Second (Volume 46, pages 73–89), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 7: A Letter from a Lion</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 7: Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield (Volume 39, pages 206–207), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 8: Tragic Death of a World-Famous Beauty</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 8: Robert Burns, Burns’ Poems (Volume 6, pages 396–406), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 9: Rest Between Wars</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 9: Tacitus, Tacitus On Germany (Volume 33, pages 93–102), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 10: No Fancy for a Plain Gentleman</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 10: Voltaire, Voltaire’s Letters on the English (Volume 34, pages 130–140), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 11: The Queen Freezes Her Philosophy</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 11: René Descartes, Descartes’ Discourse on Method (Volume 34, pages 5–20), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 12: Oxford Corrects Lincoln’s Mistake</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 12: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln’s Writings (Volume 43, pages 415–420), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 13: The Frank Story of an Amazing Life</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 13: Benvenuto Cellini, Cellini’s Autobiography (Volume 31, pages 68–80), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 14: Love Always Young</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 14: Blaise Pascal, Pascal’s Discourse on the Passion of Love (Volume 48, pages 411–421), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 15: The World Well Lost?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 15: John Dryden, Dryden’s All for Love (Volume 18, pages 53–69), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 16: Social Circles Among Ants</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 16: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Origin of Species (Volume 11, pages 264–268), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 17: Death His Curtain Call</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 17: Molière, Molière’s Tartuffe (Volume 26, pages 199–217), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 18: Lasting Peace with Great Britain</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 18: Treaty with Great Britain (1814) (Volume 43, pages 255–264), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 19: Earthly Experience of a Chinese Goddess</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 19: the Buddhist Writings (Volume 45, pages 693–701), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 20: Voltaire Observes the Quakers</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 20: Voltaire, Voltaire’s Letters on the English (Volume 34, pages 65–78), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 21: Does Football Make a College?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 21: John Henry Newman, Newman’s The Idea of a University (Volume 28, pages 31–39), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 22: An Ode for Washington’s Birthday</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 22: Robert Burns, Burns’ Poems (Volume 6, pages 492–494), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 23: Pepys’ Nose for News</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 23: Robert Louis Stevenson, Stevenson’s Samuel Pepys (Volume 28, pages 285–292), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 24: Lights and Shadows of Milton</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 24: John Milton, Milton’s Poems (Volume 4, pages 30–38), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 25: Punished for Too Sharp a Wit</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 25: Daniel Defoe, The Shortest-Way with Dissenters (Volume 27, pages 133–147), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 26: A David Who Side-stepped Goliath</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 26: Victor Hugo, Hugo’s Preface to Cromwell (Volume 39, pages 337–349), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 27: Poet Apostle of Good Cheer</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 27: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Longfellow’s Poems (Volume 42, pages 1264–1280), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 28: Spoke Latin First</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 28: Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne’s Essays (Volume 32, pages 29–40), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>February 29: Goethe’s Tale of a Maiden in Love</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/february-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for February 29: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and Dorothea (Volume 19, pages 337–337) and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and Dorothea (Volume 19, pages 395–410), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 1: Invented Sir Roger de Coverly</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 1: Richard Steele, The Spectator Club (Volume 27, pages 83–87), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 2: What Sailors Do on Sunday</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 2: Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast (Volume 23, pages 112–119), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 3: For Poets and Fishermen</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 3: Izaak Walton, Walton’s Life of George Herbert (Volume 15, pages 373–382), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 4: Penn—Pioneer, Thinker, and Builder</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 4: William Penn, Penn’s Some Fruits of Solitude (Volume 1, pages 321–330), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 5: Laughed at Locks</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 5: Benvenuto Cellini, Cellini’s Autobiography (Volume 31, pages 214–224), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 6: West Point’s Outcast, America’s First Great Poet</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 6: Edgar Allan Poe, Poe’s The Raven (Volume 42, pages 1227–1230), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 7: Bacon Warns Judges</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 7: Francis Bacon, Bacon Of Judicature (Volume 3, pages 130–134), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 8: Dangerous Experiment with a Wife</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 8: Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes’ Don Quixote (Volume 14, pages 307–319), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 9: Common Sense and Good Manners</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 9: Jonathan Swift, Treatise on Good Manners (Volume 27, pages 99–103), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 10: Beaumont—The Adonis of Elizabethan Playwrights</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 10: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Philaster (Volume 47, pages 667–677), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 11: Gain Gleaned from Suffering</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 11: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Compensation (Volume 5, pages 85–92), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 12: An Irish Bishop’s Wit</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 12: George Berkeley, Berkeley’s Three Dialogues (Volume 37, pages 228–238), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 13: Before Nobility Ran Tea Rooms</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 13: Alessandro Manzoni, Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi (Volume 21, pages 318–332), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 14: A Maiden’s Forfeit</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 14: Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy Grail (Volume 35, pages 194–200), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 15: Beware the Ides of March!</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 15: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Cæsar (Volume 12, pages 315–321), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 16: Crabs Climb Trees?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 16: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle (Volume 29, pages 466–475), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 17: An Old Irish Legend</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 17: Ernest Renan, The Poetry of the Celtic Races (Volume 32, pages 174–182), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 18: New Way to Pay Old Debts</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 18: Philip Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts (Volume 47, pages 859–870), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 19: Seeing Old Egypt</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 19: Herodotus, Herodotus’ An Account of Egypt (Volume 33, pages 72–84), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 20: Apples, Feathers, and Coals</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 20: Voltaire, Voltaire’s Letters on the English (Volume 34, pages 113–124), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 21: 1,000 Years of History on the Surface of a Shield</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 21: Virgil, Virgil’s Æneid (Volume 13, pages 280–292), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 22: From Puppet Show to Majestic Drama</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 22: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe’s Faust (Volume 19, pages 23–36), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 23: First of a Thousand Harem Stories</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 23: The Thousand and One Nights (Volume 16, pages 15–24), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 24: A Queen Pleads</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 24: William Morris, Morris’ Defense of Guenevere (Volume 42, pages 1183–1193), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 25: How Conscience Makes Cowards of Us All</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 25: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Volume 46, pages 144–158), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 26: “2,500 Years Ago Æsop Said . . .”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 26: Æsop, Æsop’s Fables (Volume 17, pages 21–30), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 27: When Is a Lie Not a Lie?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 27: Robert Louis Stevenson, Stevenson’s Truth of Intercourse (Volume 28, pages 277–284), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 28: Pins and Other Points</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 28: Adam Smith, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (Volume 10, pages 9–17), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 29: Hero and Goddess Break Engagement</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 29: Epic and Saga (Volume 49, pages 307–317), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 30: The Plague of Milan</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-30/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-30/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 30: Alessandro Manzoni, Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi (Volume 21, pages 500–512), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>March 31: The Ghastly Whim of John Donne</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-31/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/march-31/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for March 31: Izaak Walton, Walton’s Life of Dr. Donne (Volume 15, pages 364–369), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 1: “Oh! to Be in England Now That April’s There”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 1: Robert Browning, Browning’s Poems (Volume 42, pages 1068–1074), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 2: A Spoon Dances in the Moonlight</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 2: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle (Volume 29, pages 462–471), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 3: Romance with a Happy Ending</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 3: Izaak Walton, Walton’s Life of George Herbert (Volume 15, pages 392–404), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 4: The Mistakes of a Night</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 4: Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (Volume 18, pages 205–215), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 5: You and Your Dreams</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 5: Thomas Hobbes, Hobbes’ Leviathan (Volume 34, pages 313–322), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 6: Who Is Bad?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 6: Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (Volume 2, pages 243–253), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 7: Nature Guided His Pen</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 7: William Wordsworth, Wordsworth’s Poems (Volume 41, pages 639–651), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 8: Beware the Vengeful Hounds!</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 8: Æschylus, Æschylus’ The Libation Bearers (Volume 8, pages 111–121), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 9: A Perfect Land in a Wilderness of Waters</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 9: Francis Bacon, Bacon’s New Atlantis (Volume 3, pages 145–155), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 10: Americans—by Will of the King</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 10: First Charter of Virginia (Volume 43, pages 49–58), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 11: Danger in Being Young and Fair</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 11: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe’s Faust (Volume 19, pages 115–131), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 12: The Perfect Argument</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 12: George Berkeley, Berkeley’s Three Dialogues (Volume 37, pages 230–240), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 13: Michelangelo His Boon Companion</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 13: Benvenuto Cellini, Cellini’s Autobiography (Volume 31, pages 23–35), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 14: A Raid on Spanish Treasure in America</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 14: Walter Bigges, Biggs’ Drake’s Great Armada (Volume 33, pages 229–242), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 15: O Captain! My Captain!</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 15: Walt Whitman, Whitman’s Poems (Volume 42, pages 1412–1420), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 16: Inside the Gates of Hell</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 16: Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Divine Comedy (Volume 20, pages 32–39), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 17: Benjamin Franklin—Book Salesman</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 17: Benjamin Franklin, Franklin’s Autobiography (Volume 1, pages 66–77), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 18: Ready for Adventures and Conquests</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 18: Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes’ Don Quixote (Volume 14, pages 17–28), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 19: Battle of Concord</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 19: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Concord Hymn (Volume 42, pages 1245–1246), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 20: Byron Gave His Life for Freedom</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 20: Lord Byron, Byron’s Poems (Volume 41, pages 801–815), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 21: Books as Windows to the Past</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 21: Hippolyte Taine, Introduction to English Literature (Volume 39, pages 410–418), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 22: Happiness as a Duty</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 22: Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of Morals (Volume 32, pages 310–317), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 23: “If You Have Poison for Me, I Will Drink It”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 23: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s King Lear (Volume 46, pages 293–303), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 24: Nineteen Million Elephants</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 24: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Origin of Species (Volume 11, pages 74–86), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 25: Mighty Rome Feared These Men</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 25: Tacitus, Tacitus’ On Germany (Volume 33, pages 106–120), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 26: Do Miracles Still Happen</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 26: David Hume, Hume On Miracles (Volume 37, pages 375–385), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 27: He Dared to See Forbidden Beauty</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 27: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Beauty (Volume 5, pages 297–310), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 28: “Vanity of Vanities,” Saith the Preacher</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 28: The Book of Ecclesiastes (Volume 44, pages 335–341), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 29: How I Got Rich—by Sindbad the Sailor</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 29: The Thousand and One Nights (Volume 16, pages 231–242), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>April 30: Washington’s Dictum on Private Life</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-30/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/april-30/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for April 30: George Washington, Washington’s First Inaugural Address (Volume 43, pages 225–228), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 1: What Would &lt;i>You&lt;/i> Ask Judas Iscariot?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 1: William Hazlitt, Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen (Volume 27, pages 270–283), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 2: First Sparks of Electricity</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 2: Michael Faraday, Faraday’s Magnetism—Electricity (Volume 30, pages 61–72), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 3: Why “Machiavellian”?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 3: Niccolò Machiavelli, Machiavelli’s The Prince (Volume 36, pages 7–17), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 4: A Champion of Science</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 4: Thomas Henry Huxley, Science and Culture (Volume 28, pages 209–219), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 5: Strange Adventures in Man’s Clothes</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 5: Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Calderon’s Life Is a Dream (Volume 26, pages 7–21), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 6: A Poor Artist Defies a Rich Duke</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 6: Benvenuto Cellini, Cellini’s Autobiography (Volume 31, pages 373–384), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 7: A Bishop Bargains</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 7: Robert Browning, Browning’s Poems (Volume 42, pages 1074–1078), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 8: Behind the Screen in the School for Scandal</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 8: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sheridan’s School for Scandal (Volume 18, pages 164–176), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 9: Relation of Art to Freedom</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 9: Friedrich von Schiller, Schiller’s On Æsthetic Education (Volume 32, pages 209–217), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 10: A Knight Among Cannibals</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 10: Sir Walter Raleigh, Raleigh’s Discovery of Guiana (Volume 33, pages 326–341), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 11: Latest Gossip in Malfi</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 11: John Webster, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (Volume 47, pages 755–771), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 12: His Wife’s Golden Hair Enshrined His Poems</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 12: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rossetti’s Poems (Volume 42, pages 1149–1153) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rossetti’s Poems (Volume 42, pages 1178–1181), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 13: What Does Your Dog Think of You?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 13: Robert Burns, Burns’ The Twa Dogs (Volume 6, pages 151–157), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 14: Jenner’s Amazing Smallpox Cure</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 14: Edward Jenner, Vaccination Against Smallpox (Volume 38, pages 145–154), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 15: Glimpses Into the Beyond</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 15: Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Divine Comedy (Volume 20, pages 102–114), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 16: Favorite Superstitions of Celtic Imagination</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 16: Ernest Renan, The Poetry of the Celtic Races (Volume 32, pages 145–155), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 17: An Honest Life’s Reward</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 17: Plato, Plato’s Apology of Socrates (Volume 2, pages 24–30), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 18: The Night Life of Flowers</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 18: Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen’s Tales (Volume 17, pages 334–341), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 19: Golden Advice on Manners</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 19: Epictetus, Epictetus’ Golden Sayings (Volume 2, pages 128–138), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 20: Shakespeare’s Finest Work</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 20: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Volume 40, pages 270–276), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 21: An Honest Man Defined</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 21: Alexander Pope, Pope’s Essay on Man (Volume 40, pages 430–440), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 22: True Love in Difficulty</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 22: Alessandro Manzoni, Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi (Volume 21, pages 7–24), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 23: A Plea for an Unfortunate</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 23: Thomas Hood, Hood’s Poems (Volume 41, pages 907–911), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 24: They Had No Money—Yet Bought and Sold</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 24: Adam Smith, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (Volume 10, pages 27–33), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 25: Do What You Fear</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 25: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Heroism (Volume 5, pages 121–131), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 26: Daughter Declares Her Love</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 26: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s King Lear (Volume 46, pages 215–225), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 27: Lessing’s Courageous Stand for Toleration</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 27: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Education of the Human Race (Volume 32, pages 185–195), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 28: Master of Melodious Lyrics</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 28: Thomas Moore, Moore’s Poems (Volume 41, pages 816–822), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 29: Adventures in Bagdad</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 29: The Thousand and One Nights (Volume 16, pages 177–184), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 30: When the Throb of the War Drum Is Stifl’d</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-30/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-30/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 30: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Longfellow’s The Building of the Ship (Volume 42, pages 1280–1290), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>May 31: America’s Most Surprising Poet</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-31/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/may-31/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for May 31: Walt Whitman, Whitman’s Preface to Leaves of Grass (Volume 39, pages 388–398), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 1: Thrilling Play by Tutor of Shakespeare</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 1: Christopher Marlowe, Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus (Volume 19, pages 241–250), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 2: “Back to Nature” in the Seventeenth Century</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 2: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau’s A Savoyard Vicar (Volume 34, pages 239–249), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 3: Pulse Aids Epochal Discoveries</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 3: William Harvey, Motion of the Heart and Blood (Volume 38, pages 75–86), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 4: ’Neath the Iron Hand of Spain</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 4: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe’s Egmont (Volume 19, pages 253–259), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 5: The Rent of Land from Human Food</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 5: Adam Smith, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (Volume 10, pages 149–157), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 6: A Shrill Cry in the Night!</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 6: Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast (Volume 23, pages 285–295), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 7: “There’s Rosemary—that’s for Remembrance!”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 7: William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Volume 46, pages 176–183), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 8: Eloquence Wins Over Prejudice</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 8: John Woolman, Woolman’s Journal (Volume 1, pages 302–312), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 9: Enchanting Songs of David</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 9: The Psalms (Volume 44, pages 168–179), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 10: Horrible Prophecy Fulfilled</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 10: Sophocles, Sophocles’ Œdipus, King of Thebes (Volume 8, pages 209–223), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 11: He Sang of His Beautiful Elizabeth</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 11: Edmund Spenser, Spenser’s The Epithalamium (Volume 40, pages 234–245), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 12: Vishnu Holds Up a Battle</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 12: The Bhagavad-Gita (Volume 45, pages 785–798), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 13: Athens Flouts Aristides</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 13: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Aristides (Volume 12, pages 85–94), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 14: A Philosopher Prefers Prison Cell</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 14: Plato, Plato’s Crito (Volume 2, pages 31–43), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 15: Strikers Storm the Tower of London</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 15: Jean Froissart, Froissart’s Wat Tyler’s Rebellion (Volume 35, pages 60–72), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 16: Spirits at the Top of the World</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 16: Lord Byron, Byron’s Manfred (Volume 18, pages 415–428), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 17: Risked His Scalp in Prayer</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 17: John Eliot, Eliot’s Brief Narrative (Volume 43, pages 138–146), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 18: Cinderella Lives To-day</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 18: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm’s Tales (Volume 17, pages 98–104), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 19: Freaks of the Dog Fad in England</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 19: Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed’s Our English Dogs (Volume 35, pages 350–356), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 20: No Salt for These Birds</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 20: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle (Volume 29, pages 403–413), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 21: Would You Converse with Royalty?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 21: John Ruskin, Ruskin’s Sesame (Volume 28, pages 99–110), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 22: Pliny Tells Ghost Stories</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 22: Pliny the Younger, Pliny’s Letters (Volume 9, pages 311–314), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 23: Greek Scholar at Three</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 23: John Stuart Mill, Mill’s Autobiography (Volume 25, pages 9–20), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 24: Had No Right Hand</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 24: The Thousand and One Nights (Volume 16, pages 120–133), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 25: Advice to Virgins from a Wise Man</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 25: Robert Herrick, Herrick’s Poems (Volume 40, pages 334–340), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 26: In the Lair of the Green-Eyed Monster</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 26: Beowulf (Volume 49, pages 45–50), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 27: Do You Take Poison Daily?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 27: Francis Bacon, Bacon’s Essays (Volume 3, pages 22–26), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 28: Pages from the Pampas Book of Etiquette</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 28: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle (Volume 29, pages 51–60), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 29: “Is That a Dagger I See Before Me?”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 29: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Volume 46, pages 357–365), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>June 30: Rather King Than Majority</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-30/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/june-30/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for June 30: John Stuart Mill, Mill’s On Liberty (Volume 25, pages 195–203), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 1: Darwin Not First Evolutionist</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 1: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Origin of Species (Volume 11, pages 5–17), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 2: “Julius” Becomes “July”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 2: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Cæsar (Volume 12, pages 310–315), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 3: Gettysburg by an Eyewitness</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 3: Frank Aretas Haskell, Haskell’s Battle of Gettysburg (Volume 43, pages 326–335), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 4: Some Chose to Remain British Subjects</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 4: Declaration of Independence (Volume 43, pages 150–155), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 5: A Tailor Entertains a King</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 5: The Thousand and One Nights (Volume 16, pages 149–162), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 6: The Origin of “Utopia”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 6: Sir Thomas More, More’s Utopia (Volume 36, pages 135–142), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 7: Scandal That Lurked Behind Lace and Powder</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 7: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sheridan’s School for Scandal (Volume 18, pages 115–128), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 8: Italy’s Fair Assassin</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 8: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley’s Cenci (Volume 18, pages 288–300), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 9: A Little Lying Now and Then</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 9: Francis Bacon, Bacon’s Essays (Volume 3, pages 7–19), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 10: America’s First Immigrants</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 10: The Voyages to Vinland (Volume 43, pages 14–20), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 11: Star Gazing—A Cure for Tired Minds</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 11: Simon Newcomb, Newcomb’s The Extent of the Universe (Volume 30, pages 311–321), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 12: But He Walked!</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 12: Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau’s Walking (Volume 28, pages 395–405), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 13: Athenians Also Complained of Taxes</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 13: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Pericles (Volume 12, pages 47–57), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 14: The French People Triumph</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 14: Edmund Burke, Burke’s The Revolution in France (Volume 24, pages 268–273), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 15: When Elizabeth Dined</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 15: Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed’s Chronicles (Volume 35, pages 271–288), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 16: The Mohammedan Jesus</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 16: The Koran (Volume 45, pages 908–913), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 17: A Throne for Son or Stepson?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 17: Jean Racine, Racine’s Phædre (Volume 26, pages 133–148), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 18: They Loved in Vain</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 18: Robert Browning, Browning’s Blot in the ’Scutcheon (Volume 18, pages 359–368), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 19: She Wanted Heroes All to Herself</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 19: Sir Walter Raleigh, Raleigh’s Discovery of Guiana (Volume 33, pages 311–320), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 20: A Cobbler in Jail</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 20: John Bunyan, Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Volume 15, pages 59–69), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 21: Scotland’s Own Poet</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 21: Robert Burns, Burns’ Poems (Volume 6, pages 70–79), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 22: Trapped in a Cave with a Frenzied Giant</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 22: Homer, Homer’s Odyssey (Volume 22, pages 120–129), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 23: Friendship Above Love?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 23: Francis Bacon, Bacon’s Essays (Volume 3, pages 65–72), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 24: Indian Sorcery Blamed for an Earthquake</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 24: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle (Volume 29, pages 306–316), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 25: A Goddess and Her Mortal Lover</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 25: Lay of Brynhild (Volume 49, pages 391–395), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 26: Peace Amid Strife</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 26: Thomas à Kempis, Thomas à Kempis (Volume 7, pages 205–211), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 27: Once Surgeons Operated in Frock Coats</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 27: Joseph Lister, On the Antiseptic Principles (Volume 38, pages 257–267), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 28: An Idyl of Agriculture</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 28: Abraham Cowley, Cowley’s Of Agriculture (Volume 27, pages 61–69), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 29: Stonehenge—England’s Unsolved Mystery</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 29: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Stonehenge (Volume 5, pages 453–462), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 30: The First English Colony in North America</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-30/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-30/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 30: Edward Haies, Gilbert’s Voyage to Newfoundland (Volume 33, pages 263–273), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>July 31: Charm School for Women</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-31/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/july-31/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for July 31: Daniel Defoe, Defoe’s Education of Women (Volume 27, pages 148–150), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 1: His Influence Still Lives</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 1: John Calvin, Calvin’s Dedication (Volume 39, pages 27–33), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 2: Poems from a Heart of Love</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 2: William Drummond, Drummond’s Poems (Volume 40, pages 326–330), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 3: When the Greeks Sacked Troy</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 3: Virgil, Virgil’s Æneid (Volume 13, pages 110–117), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 4: World’s Greatest Bedtime Stories</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 4: Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen’s Tales (Volume 17, pages 221–230), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 5: Joys of the Simple Life</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 5: Robert Burns, Burns’ Cotters’ Saturday Night (Volume 6, pages 134–140), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 6: A Prophet of Aerial Warfare</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 6: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tennyson’s Locksley Hall (Volume 42, pages 979–986), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 7: The Last Golden Words of Socrates</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 7: Plato, Plato’s Phædo (Volume 2, pages 45–54), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 8: Men Transformed by Circe’s Wand</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 8: Homer, Homer’s Odyssey (Volume 22, pages 133–144), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 9: English Bridal Party Jailed</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 9: Izaak Walton, Walton’s Life of Dr. Donne (Volume 15, pages 326–334), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 10: “Give Them Cake,” said the Queen</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 10: Edmund Burke, Burke’s The Revolution in France (Volume 24, pages 143–157), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 11: Clever Repartee of Epictetus</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 11: Epictetus, Epictetus’ Golden Sayings (Volume 2, pages 176–182), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 12: Zekle’s Courtin’</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 12: James Russell Lowell, Lowell’s Poems (Volume 42, pages 1376–1379), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 13: Too Close to See the Battle</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 13: Robert Southey, Southey’s After Blenheim and other poems (Volume 41, pages 732–735), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 14: A College Boy Goes to Sea</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 14: Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast (Volume 23, pages 30–37), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 15: Into Death’s Face He Flung This Song</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 15: The Song of Roland (Volume 49, pages 166–173), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 16: Inspiring Ritual of Temple Worship</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 16: The Psalms (Volume 44, pages 286–295), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 17: Three Walls Luther Saw</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 17: Martin Luther, Luther’s Address to the Nobility (Volume 36, pages 263–275), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 18: “I Took Her by the Hair and Dragged Her Up and Down”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 18: Benvenuto Cellini, Cellini’s Autobiography (Volume 31, pages 312–323), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 19: Roses Boiled in Wine</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 19: Ambroise Paré, Paré’s Journeys in Diverse Places (Volume 38, pages 50–58), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 20: Plot Against Eve</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 20: John Milton, Milton’s Paradise Lost (Volume 4, pages 154–164), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 21: Hidden Treasures in an Old Book</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 21: Saint Augustine, Confessions of St. Augustine (Volume 7, pages 118–126), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 22: Aboard the Old Sailing Ships</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 22: Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast (Volume 23, pages 99–111), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 23: Which Is a Beautiful Woman?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 23: Edmund Burke, Burke’s On the Sublime and Beautiful (Volume 24, pages 78–88), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 24: Survivor’s Story of Vesuvius</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 24: Pliny the Younger, Pliny’s Letters (Volume 9, pages 284–291), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 25: Britain Saved by a Full Moon</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 25: Lord Kelvin, Kelvin’s Tides (Volume 30, pages 274–285), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 26: The Prince of Wales Wins His Spurs</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 26: Jean Froissart, Froissart’s Chronicles (Volume 35, pages 27–33), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 27: Priceless Treasures of Memory</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 27: Robert Burns, Burns’ Poems and Songs (Volume 6, pages 317–317) and Robert Burns, Burns’ Poems and Songs (Volume 6, pages 417–417) and Robert Burns, Burns’ Poems and Songs (Volume 6, pages 442–442) and Robert Burns, Burns’ Poems and Songs (Volume 6, pages 511–511), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 28: The World’s Love Tragedy</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 28: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe’s Faust (Volume 19, pages 158–167), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 29: Cleopatra Bewitches Mark Antony</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 29: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Antony (Volume 12, pages 339–349), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 30: Simple Life in a Palace</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-30/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-30/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 30: Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (Volume 2, pages 222–228), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>August 31: America’s Greatest Thinker</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-31/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/august-31/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for August 31: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s American Scholar (Volume 5, pages 5–15), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 1: Expelled from College, Founded a City</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 1: William Penn, Penn’s Some Fruits of Solitude (Volume 1, pages 321–331), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 2: Too Great a Price for Love</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 2: John Dryden, Dryden’s All for Love (Volume 18, pages 88–100), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 3: Seven Years to Reach England</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 3: Treaty with Great Britain (1783) (Volume 43, pages 174–179), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 4: Voltaire Criticizes</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 4: Voltaire, Voltaire’s Letters on the English (Volume 34, pages 85–93), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 5: Survival of the Fittest</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 5: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Origin of Species (Volume 11, pages 353–357), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 6: The Pride of All Scotchmen</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 6: Thomas Carlyle, Carlyle’s Sir Walter Scott (Volume 25, pages 393–403), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 7: The King’s Love</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 7: Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel (Volume 49, pages 199–209), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 8: When Europe Lay Under Ice</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 8: Hermann von Helmholtz, Helmholtz’s Ice and Glaciers (Volume 30, pages 211–223), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 9: When Nature Beckons</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 9: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Nature (Volume 5, pages 223–230), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 10: Famous Poet-Physician</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 10: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Holmes’ Poems (Volume 42, pages 1365–1370), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 11: Wages—Why and How Much?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 11: Adam Smith, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (Volume 10, pages 66–74), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 12: Love Letters of Elizabeth Browning</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 12: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (Volume 41, pages 923–932), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 13: Good That Came from a Game Pit</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 13: John Bunyan, Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Volume 15, pages 13–23), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 14: Dante and St. Peter</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 14: Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Divine Comedy (Volume 20, pages 387–395), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 15: Refused to Serve Three Terms</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 15: George Washington, Washington’s Farewell Address (Volume 43, pages 233–249), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 16: Penalty for Silence</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 16: Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed’s Chronicles (Volume 35, pages 363–370), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 17: Romance on a New England Farm</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 17: John Greenleaf Whittier, Whittier’s Poems (Volume 42, pages 1351–1364), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 18: Home After Storms and Adventures</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 18: Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast (Volume 23, pages 348–356), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 19: Humor That Survived Slavery</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 19: Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes’ Don Quixote (Volume 14, pages 48–54), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 20: Women’s Rights in the Harem</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 20: The Koran (Volume 45, pages 967–974), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 21: Æneas and the Old Witch</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 21: Virgil, Virgil’s Æneid (Volume 13, pages 207–218), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 22: A King for a Souvenir</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 22: Jean Froissart, Froissart’s Chronicles (Volume 35, pages 42–53), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 23: Dying Concerns Every Man</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 23: Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne’s To Learn How to Die (Volume 32, pages 9–22), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 24: Citizens Lured from Their Homes</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 24: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Themistocles (Volume 12, pages 13–23), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 25: A Courtship of Twenty Years</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 25: John Stuart Mill, Mill’s Autobiography (Volume 25, pages 116–120) and John Stuart Mill, Mill’s Autobiography (Volume 25, pages 149–149), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 26: And the World Rocked with Laughter</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 26: Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes’ Don Quixote (Volume 14, pages 29–35), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 27: Pascal’s Fundamentals of Religion</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 27: Blaise Pascal, Pascal’s Thoughts (Volume 48, pages 181–192), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 28: He Introduced the Germ</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 28: Louis Pasteur, Pasteur’s The Germ Theory (Volume 38, pages 364–370), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 29: Prophet of 400 Million People</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 29: Confucius, Sayings of Confucius (Volume 44, pages 5–14), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>September 30: A Gentleman According to Emerson</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-30/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/september-30/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for September 30: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Manners (Volume 5, pages 199–208), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 1: Princes To-day and Yesterday</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 1: Niccolò Machiavelli, Machiavelli’s The Prince (Volume 36, pages 36–44), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 2: Veteran Tells of Indian War</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 2: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle (Volume 29, pages 107–111), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 3: Good Enough for Chaucer</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 3: Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer’s Poems (Volume 40, pages 11–20), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 4: His Mouth Full of Pebbles</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 4: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Demosthenes (Volume 12, pages 196–205), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 5: Amateur Athlete in Old Athens</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 5: John Henry Newman, Newman’s University Life at Athens (Volume 28, pages 51–61), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 6: The Atrocious Spectacle of October 6th</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 6: Edmund Burke, Burke’s Revolution in France (Volume 24, pages 208–217), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 7: An Uncanonized American Saint</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 7: John Woolman, The Journal of John Woolman (Volume 1, pages 283–288), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 8: Fielding’s Parody Becomes History</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 8: Henry Fielding, Fielding’s Preface to Joseph Andrews (Volume 39, pages 176–181), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 9: Songs Shake the Walls of Jericho</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 9: Latin Hymns (Volume 45, pages 546–556) and Latin Hymns (Volume 45, pages 567–568), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 10: A Fugitive in Boy’s Clothes</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 10: Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes’ Don Quixote (Volume 14, pages 252–266), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 11: Æneas Flees from an Inconsolable Love</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 11: Virgil, Virgil’s Æneid (Volume 13, pages 178–188), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 12: Columbus’ Letter Miraculously Found</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 12: Letter of Columbus (Volume 43, pages 21–27), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 13: Pagan Virtue Perpetuated</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 13: Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (Volume 2, pages 193–199), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 14: No Spice and Little Gold</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 14: Adam Smith, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (Volume 10, pages 395–404), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 15: First Families of America</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 15: Amerigo Vespucci, Vespucci’s Account of His First Voyage (Volume 43, pages 28–44), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 16: When Medicine Was a Mystery</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 16: Hippocrates, Hippocrates’ Oath and Law (Volume 38, pages 3–5), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 17: Reason His Only Religion</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 17: Sir Thomas Browne, Browne’s Religio Medici (Volume 3, pages 253–265), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 18: “If Winter Comes”</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 18: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley’s Poems (Volume 41, pages 829–835), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 19: Virtue in Smiles</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 19: Leigh Hunt, Hunt’s Essays (Volume 27, pages 285–295), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 20: Odysseus Adrift on a Raft</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 20: Homer, Homer’s Odysseus (Volume 22, pages 68–80), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 21: No Fault to Find with Old Age</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 21: Cicero, Cicero’s On Old Age (Volume 9, pages 45–56), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 22: Swift’s Love Problems</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 22: William Makepeace Thackeray, Thackeray’s Jonathan Swift (Volume 28, pages 23–28), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 23: When Cæsar Turned the Tables</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 23: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Cæsar (Volume 12, pages 264–273), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 24: Clytemnestra Meets Her Rival</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 24: Æschylus, Æschylus’ Agamemnon (Volume 8, pages 52–64), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 25: It Greatly Encouraged Intrigue</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 25: Thomas Babington Macaulay, Macaulay’s Machiavelli (Volume 27, pages 363–372), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 26: Franklin Learned the Secret</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 26: Benjamin Franklin, Franklin’s Autobiography (Volume 1, pages 14–21), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 27: Fruit of Seven Years’ Silence</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 27: Buddhist Writings (Volume 45, pages 661–674), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 28: How Dice Taught Spelling</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 28: John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Volume 37, pages 128–136), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 29: Genius Rises from a Stable</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 29: John Keats, Keats’ Poems (Volume 41, pages 874–882), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 30: Geology’s Greatest Benefactor</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-30/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-30/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 30: Sir Charles Lyell, Lyell’s The Progress of Geology (Volume 38, pages 385–391), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>October 31: Witches Walk To-night</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-31/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/october-31/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for October 31: Robert Burns, Burns’ Poems (Volume 6, pages 110–119), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 1: Last Strokes of Shakespeare’s Pen</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 1: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Volume 46, pages 397–410), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 2: Journey Through a Hot Country</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 2: Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Divine Comedy (Volume 20, pages 13–20), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 3: Letters to an Emperor</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 3: Pliny the Younger, Pliny’s Letters (Volume 9, pages 404–406), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 4: Gold or Glory?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 4: Pierre Corneille, Corneille’s Polyeucte (Volume 26, pages 87–97), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 5: Costly Opinion on Divorce</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 5: William Roper, Roper’s Life of Sir Thomas More (Volume 36, pages 89–99), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 6: A Genius Needs Few Tools</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 6: Michael Faraday, Faraday’s Force of Gravitation (Volume 30, pages 13–21), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 7: The Voice from a Stone-Dead City</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 7: The Thousand and One Nights (Volume 16, pages 100–107), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 8: Blind But Unconquered</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 8: John Milton, Milton’s Paradise Regained (Volume 4, pages 359–369), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 9: Once War Songs, Now Pious Prayers</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 9: The Psalms (Volume 44, pages 318–327), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 10: A Poet Who Piped for His Supper</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 10: Oliver Goldsmith, Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village (Volume 41, pages 509–520), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 11: America’s Doughboy Glorified</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 11: Walt Whitman, Whitman’s Poems (Volume 42, pages 1402–1412), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 12: Story of the First Dresses</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 12: John Milton, Milton’s Paradise Lost (Volume 4, pages 278–290), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 13: When Carthage Was Monte Carlo</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 13: Saint Augustine, the Confessions of St. Augustine (Volume 7, pages 31–38), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 14: He Worried About It</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 14: Sir Charles Lyell, Lyell’s Uniformity of Change (Volume 38, pages 398–405), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 15: Food Profiteers 300 Years Ago</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 15: Alessandro Manzoni, Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi (Volume 21, pages 450–460), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 16: Just Before the Gold Rush</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 16: Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast (Volume 23, pages 164–168), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 17: At Thirty Scott Began to Write</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 17: Thomas Carlyle, Carlyle’s Sir Walter Scott (Volume 25, pages 410–420), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 18: Apple or Son the Arrow’s Mark</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 18: Friedrich von Schiller, Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell (Volume 26, pages 441–449), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 19: No Man Knows His Resting Place</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 19: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur (Volume 42, pages 986–992), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 20: Old Stories Ever New</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 20: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Volume 17, pages 90–98), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 21: Bargains in Wives</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 21: Voltaire, Voltaire’s Letters (Volume 34, pages 93–97), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 22: How a Queen Died for Love</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 22: Virgil, Virgil’s Æneid (Volume 13, pages 167–177), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 23: Less Than Star Dust</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 23: Blaise Pascal, Pascal’s Thoughts (Volume 48, pages 26–36), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 24: The Book that Upset Tennessee</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 24: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Origin of Species (Volume 11, pages 23–30), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 25: Cupid as a Shoemaker</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 25: Thomas Dekker, Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday (Volume 47, pages 469–483), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 26: Shakespeare Should Be Heard</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 26: Charles Lamb, Lamb On the Tragedies of Shakspere (Volume 27, pages 299–310), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 27: What Land is This?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 27: Sir Thomas More, Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (Volume 36, pages 191–204), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 28: Poems Made from Visions</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 28: William Blake, Blake’s Poems (Volume 41, pages 583–592), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 29: How Ideas Originate</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 29: David Hume, Hume’s Of the Origin of Ideas (Volume 37, pages 299–303), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>November 30: “Don’ts” for Conversation</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-30/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/november-30/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for November 30: Jonathan Swift, Swift’s Essay on Conversation (Volume 27, pages 91–98), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 1: Are Skeptics Faulty Thinkers?</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-1/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-1/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 1: George Berkeley, Berkeley’s Three Dialogues (Volume 37, pages 189–199), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 2: Practical Jokes in King Arthur’s Day</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-2/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 2: Sir Thomas Malory, The Holy Grail (Volume 35, pages 128–134), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 3: Met the Gods of Ten Thousand Worlds</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-3/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-3/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 3: The Birth of the Buddha (Volume 45, pages 603–612), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 4: The Queen Weds a Poor Stranger</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-4/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-4/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 4: Virgil, Virgil’s Æneid (Volume 13, pages 152–162), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 5: Poems by an Artist’s Model</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-5/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-5/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 5: Christina Rossetti, Christina Rossetti’s Poems (Volume 42, pages 1181–1183), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 6: Moralizing as a Seductive Art</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-6/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-6/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 6: Joseph Addison, Addison’s Essays (Volume 27, pages 73–80), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 7: What Cicero Least Expected</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-7/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-7/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 7: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Cicero (Volume 12, pages 222–231), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 8: Dream Women Shaped His Destiny</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-8/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-8/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 8: Thomas De Quincey, Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow (Volume 27, pages 319–325), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 9: Slavery’s Last Stand</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-9/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-9/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 9: The Fugitive Slave Act (Volume 43, pages 306–312), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 10: Benvenuto Boasts of Gallantry</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-10/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-10/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 10: Benvenuto Cellini, Cellini’s Autobiography (Volume 31, pages 62–72), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 11: The Most Dashing Figure in Athens</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-11/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-11/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 11: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Alcibiades (Volume 12, pages 106–117), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 12: How the Glorious News was Carried to Aix</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-12/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-12/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 12: Robert Browning, Browning’s Poems (Volume 42, pages 1066–1068), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 13: To the South Seas with the Gallant Drake</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-13/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-13/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 13: Francis Pretty, Drake’s Voyage Round the World (Volume 33, pages 199–208), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 14: Pastoral Poems and Politics</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-14/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-14/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 14: Andrew Marvell, Marvell’s Poems (Volume 40, pages 370–379), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 15: Odysseus Talks with Ghosts</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-15/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-15/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 15: Homer, Homer’s Odyssey (Volume 22, pages 145–153), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 16: How Man’s Courtship Differs from Animal’s</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-16/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-16/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 16: Edmund Burke, Burke’s The Sublime and Beautiful (Volume 24, pages 37–48), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 17: Dies on the Eve of Her Son’s Conversion</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-17/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-17/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 17: Saint Augustine, Confessions of St. Augustine (Volume 7, pages 150–160), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 18: For a Gentleman</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-18/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-18/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 18: John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Volume 37, pages 136–145), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 19: Samson Finds a Champion</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-19/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 19: John Milton, Milton’s Samson Agonistes (Volume 4, pages 444–459), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 20: Egypt Visited by the First Reporter</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-20/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-20/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 20: Herodotus, Herodotus’ An Account of Egypt (Volume 33, pages 7–17), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 21: “Madam Bubble” Not to Be Discouraged</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-21/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-21/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 21: John Bunyan, Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Volume 15, pages 306–318), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 22: Rubbing Noses in New Zealand</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-22/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-22/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 22: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle (Volume 29, pages 425–434), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 23: Saved from a Bonfire of Books</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-23/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-23/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 23: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Sainte-Beuve’s What Is a Classic? (Volume 32, pages 121–133), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 24: Christmas Made a Dull Day</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-24/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 24: Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed’s Chronicles (Volume 35, pages 266–270), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 25: The Christmas Story</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-25/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-25/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 25: the Gospel of St. Luke (Volume 44, pages 357–360), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 26: Silence Cost Her a Kingdom</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-26/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-26/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 26: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s King Lear (Volume 46, pages 288–300), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 27: Million-Year-Old Islands</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-27/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-27/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 27: Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle (Volume 29, pages 376–389), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 28: Ho! for the Spanish Main!</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-28/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-28/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 28: Walter Bigges, Drake’s Great Armada (Volume 33, pages 229–240), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 29: These Guests Outstayed Their Welcome</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-29/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-29/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 29: Homer, Homer’s Odyssey (Volume 22, pages 296–309), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 30: Dana Meets a Tattooed Sailor</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-30/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-30/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 30: Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast (Volume 23, pages 77–86), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item><item><title>December 31: Curiosity and Interest as Guides to Reading</title><link>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-31/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://teddyrookbook.com/harvard-classics/december-31/</guid><description>The Harvard Classics reading for December 31: Thomas Carlyle, Carlyle’s Inaugural Address (Volume 25, pages 364–374), with the introduction from the 1930 Reading Guide. Fifteen minutes a day.</description></item></channel></rss>