Harvard Classics

The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot 's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51- volume collection of classic works of world literature. It was published compiled and edited by the President of Harvard University, Charles William Eliot, and for the first time in 1909.

Selection

Eliot worked for one year with William A. Neilson, a professor of English, together; Eliot determined the works and Neilson selected the out and wrote the introductions. Each volume has 400 to 450 pages and contains as much as possible all the works, or parts of the written legacy.

Throughout the 20th century was discussed on the inclusion of authors such as Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, PG Wodehouse and Arthur Conan Doyle. Currently, a bound edition of the Harvard Classics by Easton Press and a paperback version of Kessinger Publishing is issued.

The Harvard Classics

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON, 1909-1917

• Vol 1: FRANKLIN, Woolman, PENN Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Journal of John Woolman
• Fruits of Solitude by William Penn

• Apology, Crito, Phaedo and Plato
• The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
• Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

• Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
• Areopagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton
• Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne

• All English poem by John Milton

• Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

• Confessions of Saint Augustine of Hippo
• Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis

• Oresteia and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
• Oedipus the King & Antigone by Sophocles
• Hippolytus, The Bacchae of Euripides
• The Frogs of Aristophanes

• Laelius de amicitia ( " Laelius on friendship ") Cato Maior de Senectute ( " Cato the Elder about the age " ) & Letters of Cicero
• Letters of Pliny the Younger

• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

• Parallel Lives by Plutarch

• Aeneid by Virgil

• Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes

• Pilgrimage to the blessed eternity of John Bunyan
• The Lives of Donne and Herbert by Izaak Walton

• Tales from the Arabian Nights

• Aesop's Fables
• Children 's and Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm
• Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

• All for Love, by John Dryden
• The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
• The Cenci by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A Blot In The Scutcheon by Robert Browning
• Manfred by Lord Byron

• Faust I, Egmont & Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

• Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

• I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni

• Odyssey by Homer

• Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr..

• On button On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & A Letter to a Noble Lord by Edmund Burke

• Autobiography & On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

• Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• Polyeucte by Pierre Corneille
• Phèdre by Jean Racine
• Tartuffe by Molière
• Minna von Barn-helm of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich von Schiller

• The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

• Scientific publications: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology

• Life of Benvenuto Cellini

• Montaigne Sainte- beuve, Renan, etc.

• Travel: historical and modern

• Discours de la méthode by René Descartes
• Philosophical Letters by Voltaire
• Treatise on the origin and foundations of inequality among men & Emile or on education by Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

• Chronicles by Jean Froissart
• Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory
• A Description of Elizabethan England by William Harrison

• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
• The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper
• Utopia by Sir Thomas More
• 95 Theses, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation & On the Freedom of a Christian by Martin Luther

• Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke
• Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
• A study of the human mind by David Hume

• Oath of Hippocrates
• Journeys in Diverse Places of Ambroise Paré
• On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey
• The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox by Edward Jenner
• The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery by Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister
• Scientific publications of Louis Pasteur
• Scientific publications by Charles Lyell

• Prefaces and prologues

• American Historical Documents: 1000-1904

• Confucianism: The Sayings of Confucius
• Jews: Book of Job, The Psalms & Ecclesiastes
• Christianity I: Luke & Acts of the Apostles

• Christianity II: first letter of Paul to the Corinthians, 2nd Letter of Paul to the Corinthians & Hymns
• Buddhism: Writings
• Hinduism: Bhagavad Gita
• Islam: Chapter from the Koran

• Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
• Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest by William Shakespeare

• The Shoemaker 's Holiday by Thomas Dekker
• The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
• Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher
• The Duchess of Amalfi by John Webster
• A new way to pay old debts of Philip Massinger

• Thoughts, Letters & minor works of Blaise Pascal

• Beowulf
• Song of Roland
• Togail Bruidne Since Derga
• Völsunga saga and the Nibelungenlied

• The last volume contains 60 lectures on Introduction and summary of areas covered: history, poetry, science, philosophy, biography, prose, critic, essay, education, political science, drama, travel and religion.

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction was selected by Charles W. Eliot, with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. It also has an index with reviews and interpretations.

• Vols. 1 & 2: The story of a foundling by Henry Fielding
• Vol 3: Yorick's sentimental journey through France and Italy, by Laurence Sterne; Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
• Vol 4: Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
• Vol 5 & 6: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Vols. 7 & 8: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Vol 9: The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
• Vol 10: The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Rip Van Winkle & Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving; Three Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe; Three Short Stories, by Francis Bret Harte; Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog by Mark Twain; The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale
• Vol 11: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• Vol 12: The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• Vol 13: Father Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac; The Devil 's Pool by George Sand; The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset; 5 Short Stories, by Alphonse Daudet; 2 short stories by Guy de Maupassant
• Vols. 14 & 15: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship & The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; The pennon of the Upright Seven of Gottfried Keller; The White Horse Rider by Theodor Storm; Trials and Tribulations of Theodor Fontane
• Vols. 16 & 17: Anna Karenina & Ivan the Fool by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
• Vol 18: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Vol 19: A needle nest & Fathers and Sons Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev from
• Vol 20: Pepita Jimenez by Juan Valera y Alcalá - Galiano; En glad Gut Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson; Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland

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