The Complete Harvard Classics - All 51 Volumes in One Edition: The Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature - Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf
by William Shakespeare, Niccolo Machiavelli, Plato, Homer, Adam Smith, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, Blaise Pascal, Daniel Defoe, Miguel De Cervantes, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Plutarch, Virgil, Aristophanes, Marcus Aurelius, Sophocles, Jonathan Swift, Epictetus, Henry David Thoreau, Herodotus, Immanuel Kant, Christopher Marlowe, Voltaire, David Hume, Charles Lamb, John Milton, Saint Augustine, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Marcus-Tullius-Cicero, George Berkeley, John Bunyan, James Russell Lowell, Dante Alighieri, Benjamin Franklin, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Martin Luther, Moliere, John Stuart Mill, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Hazlitt, Charles Darwin, Jean Froissart, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Locke, Jacob Grimm, Pliny The Younger, Hippocrates, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas A'Kempis, Tacitus, Thomas Malory, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Dekker, Wilhelm Grimm, Samuel Johnson, René Descartes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robert Burns, Robert Browning, Ernest Renan, John Fletcher, William Harvey, William Penn, Edmund Burke, Alessandro Manzoni, Friedrich Von Schiller, Thomas Carlyle, Francis Beaumont, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Thomas Hobbes, Ben Jonson, Pedro Calderon De La Barca, Michel De Montaigne, Thomas Browne, John Woolman, John Dryden, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Izaak Walton, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, George Gordon Byron, Richard Henry Dana, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Philip Sidney, Abraham Cowley, Sydney Smith, Leigh Hunt, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Edgar Alan Poe, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Giuseppe Mazzini, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, William Henry Harrison, William Roper, Ambroise Paré, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, John Webster, Philip Massinger, William A. Neilson
The Complete Harvard Classics gathers 51 volumes of the world's most influential literature into one edition, curated by Dr. Eliot as the ultimate five-foot shelf. Featuring masterpieces from Plato, Shakespeare, Darwin, and countless others, this anthology spans philosophy, history, poetry, and science, providing an unparalleled journey through human thought and creativity.
About This Book
The Complete Harvard Classics represents a monumental anthology of the greatest works of world literature, spanning from antiquity to the modern era. Compiled under the guidance of Dr. Charles W. Eliot, this collection aims to provide a broad education through carefully selected texts that form the foundation of Western thought and culture.
Encompassing 51 volumes in a single edition, it includes contributions from a vast array of influential authors, from Greek philosophers like Plato and Homer to Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau. The works cover philosophy, history, poetry, drama, and essays, offering readers a panoramic view of human intellectual achievement.
This anthology serves as Dr. Eliot's renowned 'Five Foot Shelf,' designed to offer the equivalent of a liberal arts education. It features timeless narratives and ideas that have shaped civilizations, making profound insights accessible in one cohesive collection.
Ideal for scholars, students, and lifelong learners, the Harvard Classics preserve the essence of literary excellence, inviting exploration of diverse voices across centuries and genres.
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