"The world is full of shipping clerks who have read the Harvard Classics."
- Charles Bukowski
Some years ago, I discovered that my mother had either bought, or aquired, the Britannica Series of Great Books. The series begins with a three volume preface about literature, followed by Homer's
Illiad and
The Odyssey. The Britannica Great Books series runs through most of Western Europe's and America's classic literature. Some of which I've read, some of which I haven't.
I asked my mother a few years back that one of the only things that I wanted when she passed was that book collection. She graciously gave me the whole series on that day.
The thing about the Britannica Series is that it is lacking of footnotes, endnotes, or reference material. And lacking those things makes some of the reading very difficult. My intent is to finish the series before I die, and create a reference bibliography for what I must consult to get the full impact of those books.
That's the concept of Project Britannica, Two-Showers. I'll fill that link after I finish
The Illiad and add to it as I go. May take years...
BTJM
-AM
