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THE HARVARD CLASSICS
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The Harvard Classics, also known as ‘Dr Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf’, is an anthology comprising of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909.
Eliot also compiled the 20 volume ‘Shelf of Fiction’. Ultimately, these 72 volumes cover every major literary figure, philosophy, folklore, belief and historical subject through the 20th century and are without doubt the most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time. A quick look through the works included in the list of volumes below confirms this. Overall, your chance to own a piece of literary history in modern digital format at a very small price….
Now this amazing collection of the 72 full original volumes have all been professionally scanned in high quality, compiled and preserved forever in pdf format.
The Full List of Volumes / Works is as Follows:
The Harvard Classics – Dr Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf:
Vol. 1:
His Autobiography – Benjamin Franklin
Journal – John Woolman
Fruits of Solitude – William Penn
Vol. 2:
The Apology of Socrates – Plato
Crito – Plato
Phaedo – Plato
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus – Epictetus
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius – Marcus Aurelius
Vol. 3:
Essays, Civil & Moral – Francis Bacon
The New Atlantis – Francis Bacon
Areopagitica – John Milton
Tractate on Education – John Milton
Religio Medici – Sir Thomas Browne
Vol. 4:
Complete Poems Written in English – John Milton
Vol. 5:
Essays and English Traits – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vol. 6:
Poems and Songs – Robert Burns
Vol. 7:
The Confessions of Saint Augustine – Saint Augustine
The Imitation of Christ – Thomas A. Kempis
Vol. 8:
Agamemmon – Aeschylus
The Libation-Bearers – Aeschylus
The Furies – Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus
Oepidus the King – Sophocles
Hippolytus – Euripides
The Bacchae – Euripides
The Frogs – Aristophanes
Vol. 9:
On Friendship – Cicero
On Old Age – Cicero
Letters – Cicero
Letters – Pliny the Younger
Vol. 10:
Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
Vol. 11:
The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
Vol. 12:
Lives – Plutarch
Vol. 13:
Aeneid – Virgil
Vol. 14:
Don Quixote, Part 1 – Cervantes
Vol. 15:
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
The Lives of Donne and Herbert – Izaak Walton
Vol. 16:
Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
Vol. 17:
Fables – Aesop
Household Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
Vol. 18:
All for Love – John Dryden
The School for Scandal – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She Stoops to Conquer – Oliver Goldsmith
The Cenci – Percy Byssche Shelley
A Blot in the ‘Scutcheon – Robert Browning
Manfred – Lord Byron
Vol. 19:
Faust, Part 1 – J. W. von Goethe
Egmont – J. W. von Goethe
Hermann and Dorothea – J. W. von Goethe
Dr. Faustus – Christopher Marlow
Vol. 20:
The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
Vol. 21:
I Promessi Sposi – Alessandro Manzoni
Vol. 22:
The Odyssey – Homer
Vol. 23:
Two Years before the Mast – Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Vol. 24:
On Taste – Edmund Burke
On the Sublime and Beautiful – Edmund Burke
Reflections on the French Revolution – Edmund Burke
A Letter to a Noble Lord – Edmund Burke
Vol. 25:
Autobiography – John Stuart Mill
On Liberty – John Stuart Mill
Characteristics – Thomas Carlyle
Inaugural Address at Edinburgh – Thomas Carlyle
Vol. 26:
Life is a Dream – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Polyeucte – Pierre Cornielle
Phaedra – Jean Racine
Tartuffe – Moliere
Minna von Barnhelm – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Wihelm Tell – Freidrich von Schiller
Vol. 27:
English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
Vol. 28:
Essays: English and American
Vol. 29:
The Voyage of the Beagle – Charles Darwin
Vol. 30:
Scientific Papers
Vol. 31:
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini – Benvenuto Cellini
Vol. 32:
Literary and Philosophical Essays
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Ernest Renan
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
J. C. Friedrich von Schiller
Immanuel Kant
Giuseppe Mazzini
Vol. 33:
Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern
Vol. 34:
Discourse on Method – Rene Descartes
Letters on the English – Voltaire
On the Inequality among Mankind – Jean Jacques Rousseau
Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar – Rousseau
Of Man, Being the first part of Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
Vol. 35:
The Chronicles of Jean Froissart – Jean Froissart
The Holy Grail – Sir Thomas Malory
A Description of Elizabeth England – William Harrison
Vol. 36:
The Prince – Nicolo Machiavelli
The Life of sir Thomas More – William Roper
Utopia – Sir Thomas More
The Ninety-Five Thesis – Martin Luther
Address to the Christian Nobility – Martin Luther
Concerning Christian Liberty – Martin Luther
Vol. 37:
Some Thoughts Concerning Education –John Locke
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists – George Berkeley
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
Vol. 38:
The Oath of Hippocrates – Hippocrates
Journeys in Diverse Places – Ambroise Pare
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals – William Harvey
The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox – Edward Jenner
The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever – Oliver Wendell Holmes
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery – Joseph Lister
Scientific Papers – Louis Pasteur
Scientific Papers – Charles Lyell
Vol. 39:
Prefaces and Prologues
Vol. 40:
English Poetry Pt. 1: Chaucer to Gray
Vol. 41:
English Poetry Pt. 2: Collins to Fitzgerald
Vol. 42:
English Poetry Pt. 3: Tennyson to Whitman
Vol. 43:
American Historical Documents: 1000 - 1904
Vol. 44:
Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius
Hebrew: Job
Hebrew: Psalms
Hebrew: Ecclesiastes
Christian I: Luke
Christian I: Acts
Vol. 45:
Christian II: Corinthians I
Christian II: Corinthians II
Christian II: Hymns
Buddhist: Writings
Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita
Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran
Vol. 46:
Edward the Second – Christian Marlowe
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
King Lear – Shakespeare
Macbeth – Shakespeare
The Tempest – Shakespeare
Vol. 47:
The Shoemaker’s Holiday – Thomas Dekker
The Alchemist – Ben Johnson
Philaster – Beaumont and Fletcher
The Duchess of Malfi – John Webster
A New Way to Pay Old Debts – Philip Massinger
Vol. 48:
Thoughts – Blaise Pascal
Letters – Pascal
Minor Works – Pascal
Vol. 49:
Epic & Saga: Beowulf
Epic & Saga: The Song of Roland
Epic & Saga: The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel
Epic & Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
Vol. 50:
Introduction, Reader’s Guide & Indexes
Vol. 51:
Lectures on the Harvard Classics
Vol. 52:
The Reading Guide: Fifteen Minutes a Day
The Harvard Classics – The Shelf of Fiction:
Vols. 1 & 2:
The History of Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
Vol. 3:
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
Vol. 4:
Guy Mannering – Sir Walter Scott
Vols. 5 & 6:
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Vols. 7 & 8:
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Vol. 9:
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
Vol. 10:
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rappaccini’s Daughter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rip Van Winkel – Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving
Three Short Stories – Edgar Allan Poe
Three Short Stories – Francis Bret Harte
Jim Smily and his Jumping Frog – Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
The Man Without a Country – Edward Everett Hale
Vol. 11:
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Vol. 12:
Notre Dame de Paris – Victor Marie Hugo
Vol. 13:
Old Goriot – Honore de Balzac
The Devil’s Pool – George Sand
The Story of a White Blackbird – Alfred de Musset
Five Short Stories – Alphonse Daudet
Two Short Stories – Guy de Maupassant
Vols. 14 & 15:
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – J. W. von Goethe
The Sorrows of Werther – J. W. von Goethe
The Banner of the Upright Seven – Gottfried Keller
The Rider on the White Horse – Theodor Storm
Trials and Tribulations – Theodor Fontane
Vols. 16 & 17:
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Ivan the Fool – Leo Tolstoy
Vol. 18:
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vol. 19:
A House of Gentlefolk – Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Children – Ivan Turgenev
Vol. 20:
Pepita Jeminez – Juan Valera
A Happy Boy – Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Skipper Worse – Alexander L. Kielland
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