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Harvard Classics Compete Set [50 Volumes] (1909)

by Charles William Eliot (Editor)

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This set of books was the first thing I bought for myself with my first paycheck when I got out of college. I don't know who posted this picture of the cover, but it looks the same as mine. I've looked in antique stores ever since and have never seen a complete set of the same issue. I've read pieces from various volumes, but have yet to make my way through the whole thing! ( )
  Biyee114 | Feb 12, 2012 |
This set of Classics was to have made a liberal education available to anyone who cared to follow the reading course set forward by Dr. Eliot. The world has changed since Eliot's first publication, but the classics of European literature endure. ( )
  gryphondear | Dec 26, 2008 |
The famous "five foot shelf of books." About 40 volumes of classics. I have the blue version. ( )
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The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of solitude [by] William Penn by Charles William Eliot

The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin (indirect)

The Journal of John Woolman by John Woolman (indirect)

The Fruits of Solitude by William Penn (indirect)

The Apology, Phædo, and Crito of Plato; The Golden sayings of Epictetus; The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius by Charles William Eliot

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus (indirect)

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (indirect)

The Apology / Crito / Phaedo by Plato (indirect)

The Apology by Plato (indirect)

Crito by Plato (indirect)

Phaedo by Plato (indirect)

Essays, Civil and Moral and The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education by John Milton; Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne by Charles William Eliot

Areopagitica by John Milton (indirect)

Tractate Of education by John Milton (indirect)

Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne (indirect)

The Complete Poetry of John Milton by John Milton

Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes by John Milton (indirect)

Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained by John Milton (indirect)

Paradise Lost by John Milton (indirect)

Paradise Regained by John Milton (indirect)

Samson Agonistes by John Milton (indirect)

Milton's Minor Poems by John Milton (indirect)

Il Penseroso and L'Allegro, with Paintings by William Blake by John Milton (indirect)

sonnets by Milton (indirect)

Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poems and Songs by Robert Burns

The Confessions of St. Augustine; The Imitation of Christ by Thomas À Kempis by Saint Augustine

Confessions by Saint Augustine (indirect)

The Confessions of Saint Augustine Books I-X by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. (indirect)

Prayers from The Confessions by Saint Augustine (indirect)

Confessions: Volume I: Introduction and Text by Saint Augustine (indirect)

Saint Augustine's Childhood: CONFESSIONES BOOK ONE (Testimony, Bk 1) by Augustine of Hippo (indirect)

Confessions, Vol. 2: Books 9-13 (Loeb Classical Library, No. 27) by Augustine (indirect)

Saint Augustine's Memory (Augustine, Confessiones. Bk. 2.) by Augustine (indirect)

Confessions, Vol. 1: Books 1-8 (Loeb Classical Library, No. 26) (v. 1) by Bishop of Hippo Augustine Saint (indirect)

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis (indirect)

Nine Greek dramas by Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes by Charles William Eliot

Agamemnon by Aeschylus (indirect)

Eumenides by Aeschylus (indirect)

Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (indirect)

Oedipus the King by Sophocles (indirect)

Antigone by Sophocles (indirect)

Hippolytus by Euripides (indirect)

Bacchae by Euripides (indirect)

The Frogs by Aristophanes (indirect)

Choephori by Aeschylus (indirect)

Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Freindship and Old Age; and Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus by Charles William Eliot

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Plutarch's Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demostheses and Cicero,Cæsar and Antony by Plutarch

The Aeneid by Virgil

Aeneid, books 1-6 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, Book 2 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, book 4 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, book 1 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, book 6 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, book 8 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, book 9 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid I-IV by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, book 11 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, book 10 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, book 12 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, book 5 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, book 3 by Virgil (indirect)

Aeneid, book 7 by Virgil (indirect)

Don Quixote [Part 1 of 2] by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote [Part 1 of 4] by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (indirect)

Don Quixote [Part 2 of 4] by Miguel de Cervantes (indirect)

Stories from the Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights' Entertainment) by Charles William Eliot

Folklore and Fable: Aesop; Grimm; Andersen by Charles William Eliot

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (indirect)

Modern English Drama: Dryden; Sheridan; Goldsmith; Shelley; Browning; Byron by Charles William Eliot

Faust, Part I; Egmont; Herman and Dorothea; Doctor Faustus by Charles William Eliot

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy, Vol. I: Hell by Dante Alighieri (indirect)

The Divine Comedy, Vol. II: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri (indirect)

The ante-purgatorio of Dante Alighieri : The first nine cantos of the Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri (indirect)

The Divine Comedy, Vol. III: Paradise by Dante Alighieri (indirect)

The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni

I Promessi Sposi Volume Primo (BUR Classici) by Alessandro Manzoni (indirect)

De verloofden, dl. 2 by Alessandro Manzoni (indirect)

The Odyssey by Homer

The Odyssey, Books 13-24 by Homer (indirect)

The Odyssey: Books 1-12 (The Loeb Classical Library, No 104) by Homer (indirect)

De dolinge van Ulysse : Homerus' Odysseia I-XVIII in Nederlandse verzen van Dierick Volckertsz. Coornhert by Homer (indirect)

Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After by Richard Henry Dana

On taste; On the sublime and beautiful; Reflections on the French revolution; A letter to a noble lord by Edmund Burke

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke (indirect)

Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke (indirect)

Autobiography; Essay on Liberty; Characteristics; Inaugural Address;Essay on Scott by Charles William Eliot

Autobiography by John Stuart Mill (indirect)

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (indirect)

Characteristics by Thomas Carlyle (indirect)

Inaugural Address at Edinburgh by Thomas Carlyle (indirect)

Sir Walter Scott by Thomas Carlyle (indirect)

Continental Drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lessing, Schiller by Charles William Eliot

Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (indirect)

Polyeucte by Pierre Corneille (indirect)

Phedre by Jean Racine (indirect)

Tartuffe by Molière (indirect)

Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (indirect)

Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller (indirect)

English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay by Charles William Eliot

Essays: English and American by Charles William Eliot

The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

Scientific Papers: Physics; Chemistry; Astronomy; Geology by Charles William Eliot

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellinis liv. D. 1 by Benvenuto Cellini (indirect)

Benvenuto Cellinis liv. D. 2 by Benvenuto Cellini (indirect)

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German, and Italian by Charles William Eliot

Voyages and travels: Ancient and Modern by Charles William Eliot

Chronicle and Romance: Froissart; Malory; Holinshed by Charles William Eliot

The Prince; Utopia; Ninety-Five Theses, Address to the German Nobility Concerning Christian Liberty by Charles William Eliot

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (indirect)

Utopia by Thomas More (indirect)

Martin Luther's 95 Theses by Martin Luther (indirect)

English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Locke; Berkeley; Hume by Charles William Eliot

Scientific Papers: Physiology; Medicine; Surgery; Geology by Charles William Eliot

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books by Charles William Eliot

English Poetry, Volume I: From Chaucer to Gray by Charles William Eliot

English Poetry, Volume II: From Collins to Fitzgerald by Charles William Eliot

English Poetry, Volume III: From Tennyson to Whitman by Charles William Eliot

American Historical Documents, 1000-1904 by Charles William Eliot

Sacred Writings, Volume I: Confucian; Hebrew; Christian (Part I) by Charles William Eliot

Sacred Writings, Volume II: Christian (Part II); Buddhist; Hindu; Mohammedan by Charles William Eliot

Elizabethan Drama, Volume I: Marlowe; Shakespeare by Charles William Eliot

Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (indirect)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (indirect)

King Lear by William Shakespeare (indirect)

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (indirect)

The Tempest by William Shakespeare (indirect)

Elizabethan Drama, Volume II: Dekker; Jonson; Beaumont and Fletcher; Webster; Massinger by Charles William Eliot

The Shoemaker's Holiday by Thomas Dekker (indirect)

The Alchemist by Ben Jonson (indirect)

Philaster by Francis Beaumont (indirect)

The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster (indirect)

A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Philip Massinger (indirect)

Blaise Pascal: Thoughts; Letters; Minor Works by Blaise Pascal

Epic and Saga: Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel; The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs by Charles William Eliot

Beowulf by Anonymous (indirect)

The Song of Roland by Anonymous (indirect)

The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel by Anonymous (indirect)

The Saga Of The Volsungs by Eiríkr Magnússon (indirect)

The Editor's Introduction; Reader's Guide; Index to the First Lines of Poems, Songs & Choruses, Hymnes & Psalms; General Index; Chronological Index by Charles William Eliot

The Pilgrim's Progress; The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert by Charles William Eliot

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (indirect)

Pilgrim's Progress Part One by John Bunyan (indirect)

Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2: Christiana by John Bunyan (indirect)

The life of Dr. Donne by Izaak Walton (indirect)

The life of Mr. George Herbert by Izaak Walton (indirect)

French and English Philosophers: Descartes; Rousseau; Voltaire; Hobbes by Charles William Eliot

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