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When Charles William Eliot assembled The Harvard Classics, more commonly known as “The Five-Foot Shelf,” and later the “Shelf of Fiction”, he gathered this epic collection of key works which he thought would best represent “the progress of man… from the earliest historical times to the close of the nineteenth century.” In his introduction to The Harvard Classics, Eliot likens the collection to a...

THE HARVARD CLASSICS EDITED BY CHARLES W ELIOT LL DD THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI HELL • PURGATORY PARADISE TRANSLATED BY HENRY F CARY WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES Volume 20 The Sin of Anger —Purgatory, Canto XV