The Harvard Classics [50 Volume Set]

by Charles William Eliot (Editor)

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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.
Dec 26, 2008
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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!
Feb 12, 2012
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / The Journal of John Woolman / Fruits of Solitude by Charles William Eliot
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (indirect)
The Journal of John Woolman by John Woolman (indirect)
The Fruits of Solitude by William Penn (indirect)
The Apology, Phaedo 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)
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (indirect)
The Apology / Crito / Phaedo by Plato (indirect)
Apology by Plato (indirect)
Crito by Plato (indirect)
Phaedo by Plato (indirect)
Essays, Civil and Moral, and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici by Charles William Eliot
Areopagitica by John Milton (indirect)
Trattato dell'educazione by John Milton (indirect)
Religio Medici by Thomas Browne (indirect)
New Atlantis by Francis Bacon (indirect)
The Essays by Francis Bacon (indirect)
On gardens by Francis Bacon (indirect)
Of Truth by Francis Bacon (indirect)
Of Revenge by Francis Bacon (indirect)
Of Atheism by Francis Bacon (indirect)
Of Death - Pamphlet by Francis Bacon (indirect)
Of Superstition by Francis Bacon (indirect)
Of Empire by Francis Bacon (indirect)
John Milton: The Complete Poems 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 Lost: Books I–V by John Milton (indirect)
Paradise Lost: Books VI–X by John Milton (indirect)
Paradise Regained by John Milton (indirect)
Samson Agonistes by John Milton (indirect)
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas by John Milton (indirect)
L'Allegro by John Milton (indirect)
Milton's Sonnets by John Milton (indirect)
The poetical works of John Milton. Volume I: The Minor Poems by John 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 Charles William Eliot
The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine (indirect)
The Confessions, Books 1-10 by Augustine (indirect)
Prayers from The Confessions by Saint Augustine (indirect)
Augustine Confessions: Volume 1: Introduction and Text by James J. O'Donnell (indirect)
Saint Augustine's Childhood by Saint Augustine (indirect)
Confessions, Vol. 2: Books 9-13 by Augustine (indirect)
Saint Augustine's Memory by Garry Wills (indirect)
Confessions, Vol. 1: Books 1-8 by Augustine (indirect)
Saint Augustine's Sin by Saint Augustine (indirect)
Saint Augustine's Conversion by Saint Augustine (indirect)
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis (indirect)
Counsels on the Spiritual Life (Classic, 60s) by Thomas à Kempis (indirect)
Nine Greek Dramas by Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes by Charles William Eliot
Agamemnon by Aeschylus (indirect)
Aeschylus: Eumenides (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) by Aeschylus (indirect)
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (indirect)
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (indirect)
Antigone by Sophocles (indirect)
Hippolytus by Euripides (indirect)
Bacchae by Euripides (indirect)
The Frogs [in translation] by Aristophanes (indirect)
Choephoroe by Aeschylus (indirect)
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age and Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus by Marcus Tullius Cicero
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Books I-II by Adam Smith (indirect)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Books III-V by Adam Smith (indirect)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume III by Adam Smith (indirect)
On the Revenue of the Sovereign: Excerpted from The Wealth of Nations (Annotated) by Adam Smith (indirect)
La ricchezza delle nazioni: abbozzo by Adam Smith (indirect)
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Hosts of Living Forms (Penguin Great Ideas) by Charles Darwin (indirect)
On the Origin of Species, volume 1 of 2 by Charles Darwin (indirect)
On the Origin of Species, volume 2 of 2 by Charles Darwin (indirect)
Plutarch's Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Caesar and Antony by Plutarch
The Aeneid (translations) by Virgil
Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI (translations only) by Virgil (indirect)
Aeneid, book 2 (Latin) by Virgil (indirect)
Aeneid, book 4 (indirect)
Aeneid, book 1 (indirect)
Aeneid, book 8 (indirect)
Aeneid, book 9 (indirect)
Aeneid I-IV (indirect)
Aeneid, book 11 (indirect)
Aeneid, book 10 (indirect)
Aeneid, book 12 (indirect)
Aeneid, book 5 (indirect)
Aeneid, book 3 (indirect)
Aeneid, book 7 (indirect)
Aeneid VI by Virgil (indirect)
Aeneid: Book VI [in translation] by Seamus Heaney (indirect)
Don Quixote [Part 1 of 2] by Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote [Part 1 of 4] by Miguel de Cervantes (indirect)
Don Quixote [Part 2 of 4] by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (indirect)
Stories from the Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights' Entertainment) by Charles William Eliot
Stories from the Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) by Stanley Lane-Pool (indirect)
Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen by Charles William Eliot
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (indirect)
Andersen's fairy tales with critical appreciations old and new by G. K. Chesterton (indirect)
Modern English Drama: Dryden; Sheridan; Goldsmith; Shelley; Browning; Byron by Charles William Eliot
A Blot in the 'Scutcheon by Robert Browning (indirect)
All for Love by John Dryden (indirect)
Manfred by George Gordon Byron (indirect)
The Cenci, a tragedy in five acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley (indirect)
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith (indirect)
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (indirect)
Faust, Part I / Egmont / Hermann and Dorothea / Doctor Faustus by Charles William Eliot
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (indirect)
Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (indirect)
Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (indirect)
Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (indirect)
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Inferno by Dante Alighieri (indirect)
The Descent into Hell (Penguin Epics) by Dante Alighieri (indirect)
The First Three Circles of Hell by Dante Alighieri (indirect)
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri (indirect)
The ante-purgatorio of Dante Alighieri : The first nine cantos of the Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri (indirect)
Paradiso by Dante Alighieri (indirect)
Seis cantos do Paraíso by Dante Alighieri (indirect)
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi sposi [1827 ed.] by Alessandro Manzoni (indirect)
I Promessi Sposi: Tomo 2. by Alessandro Manzoni (indirect)
The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey, Books 13-24 by Homer (indirect)
The Odyssey, Books 1-12 by Homer (indirect)
De dolinge van Ulysse : Homerus' Odysseia I-XVIII in Nederlandse verzen van Dierick Volckertsz. Coornhert by Homer (indirect)
Odissea:volum primer: cants I-VIII by Homer (indirect)
Odissea: volum segon: cants IX-XVI by Homer (indirect)
Odissea: volum tercer: cants XVII-XXIV by Homer (indirect)
Circe and the Cyclops (Penguin Little Black Classics) by Homer (indirect)
Two Years Before the Mast / Twenty-Four Years After by Richard Henry Jr. Dana
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (indirect)
Two Years Before the Mast Vol. I by Richard Henry Jr. Dana (indirect)
Two Years Before the Mast Vol. II by Richard Henry Jr. Dana (indirect)
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 John Stuart Mill
Autobiography of John Stuart Mill 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; Molière; Lessing; Schiller by Charles William Eliot
Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (indirect)
Polyeucte by Pierre Corneille (indirect)
Phaedra by Jean Racine (indirect)
Tartuffe or The Hypocrite [Squid Ink Classics Edition] by Molière (indirect)
Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (indirect)
William Tell by Friedrich Schiller (indirect)
English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay by Charles William Eliot
A Defence of Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney (indirect)
Essays: English and American by Charles William Eliot
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
The Galapagos Islands by Charles Darwin (indirect)
It Was Snowing Butterflies by Charles Darwin (indirect)
The Voyage of the Beagle Part 1 by Charles Darwin (indirect)
The Voyage of the Beagle Part 2 by Charles Darwin (indirect)
Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by Charles William Eliot
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini: Volume 1 by Benvenuto Cellini (indirect)
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini: Volume 2 by Benvenuto Cellini (indirect)
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German, and Italian by Charles William Eliot
Voyages and Travels by Charles William Eliot
The Discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh (indirect)
On Germany by Tacitus (indirect)
An Account of Egypt by Herodotus (indirect)
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes (indirect)
A Voyage Round the World by Sir Francis Drake (indirect)
Sir Francis Drake Revived by Philip Nichols (indirect)
Chronicle and Romance: Froissart; Malory; Holinshed by Charles William Eliot
Froissart's Chronicles [complete] by Jean Froissart (indirect)
The Description of England: The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life by William Harrison (indirect)
The Prince; Utopia; Ninety-Five Theses by Charles William Eliot
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (indirect)
Utopia by Thomas More (indirect)
Die Bibel (German Edition) by Martin Luther (indirect)
English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Locke; Berkeley; Hume by Charles William Eliot
Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke (indirect)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume (indirect)
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley (indirect)
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 by Charles William Eliot
Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion by John Winthrop (indirect)
Brief narrative to the right worshipful the commissioners : under his majesties great-seal, for propagation of the gospel amongst the poor blind Indians in New England. by John Eliot (indirect)
Sacred Writings, Volume I by Charles William Eliot
Elizabethan Drama, Volume I: Marlow; 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)
Ariel's Song by William Shakespeare (indirect)
The Cloud-Capp'd Towers 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)
Mercury Vindicated From The Alchemists 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)
Thoughts ; Letters ; Minor works by Blaise Pascal
Epic and Saga by Charles William Eliot
The Song of Roland by Anonymous (indirect)
the destruction of da derga's hostel (bound w/ the song of roland; beowulf; the story of the volsungs and niblungs) by Anonymous (indirect)
The Saga of the Volsungs by Anonymous (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
Discourse on Method by René Descartes (indirect)
Letters on England by Voltaire (indirect)
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (indirect)
Creed of a Priest of Savoy (Milestones of Thought Series) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (indirect)
Of Man by Thomas Hobbes (indirect)

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Canonical title
The Harvard Classics [50 Volume Set]
Original publication date
1909
People/Characters
Charles W. Eliot, LL.D. (editor); William A. Neilson, Ph.D., Professor of English (Introductions)
Important places
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Disambiguation notice
Originally known and advertised in Collier's Magazine as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf". A separate 20-volume selection by Eliot, the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, was published in 1917. [Wikipedia]

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808.83 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Collections of fiction
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Z1035 .H34 — Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources General bibliography Best books
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