Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Thomas Carlyle
Theodor Storm
Plato
Theodor Fontane
René Descartes
Gottfried Keller
Mark Twain
Immanuel Kant
Charles Darwin
Martin Luther
Robert Louis Stevenson
William Shakespeare
Dante Alighieri
Euripides
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charles Lamb
Henry David Thoreau
Henry James
Samuel Johnson
John Stuart Mill
Victor Hugo
David Hume
Joseph Addison
Jane Austen
John Locke
John Fletcher
Francis Beaumont
Leigh Hunt
Epictetus
Alphonse Daudet
Thomas De Quincey
Guy de Maupassant
George Eliot
Walter Scott
Laurence Sterne
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jonathan Swift
Christopher Marlowe
Wilhelm Grimm
William Hazlitt
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Daniel Defoe
Aesop
Richard Henry Dana
Henry Fielding
John Dryden
Philip Massinger
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Bret Harte
George Sand
John Ruskin
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ernest Renan
Robert Burns
David Garrick
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Webster
Washington Irving
Izaak Walton
John Bunyan
Juan Valera
Alfred de Musset
James Russell Lowell
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Homer
Edmund Burke
Plutarch
Molière
Aeschylus
Michael Faraday
Sophocles
William Makepeace Thackeray
Benjamin Franklin
Edward Everett Hale
Pierre Corneille
Jean Racine
Voltaire
Robert Browning
Oliver Goldsmith
Thomas Dekker
John Milton
Aristophanes
Blaise Pascal
Virgil
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Simon Newcomb
William Penn
Walter Bigges
Philip Sidney
Herodotus
Walter Raleigh
Francis Bacon
Giuseppe Mazzini
Francis Pretty
George Berkeley
Thomas Hobbes
Adam Smith
Alessandro Manzoni
Abraham Cowley
Michel de Montaigne
Ben Jonson
John Woolman
Benvenuto Cellini
Sydney Smith
Jean Froissart
William Henry Harrison
William Harvey
Marcus Aurelius
Hans Christian Andersen
Thomas Malory
George Gordon Byron
Thomas à Kempis
Ivan Turgenev
Richard Steele
Thomas Browne
Archibald Geikie
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tacitus
William Roper
Hippocrates
Miguel de Cervantes
Thomas More
Friedrich von Schiller
Philip Nichols
Louis Pasteur
Joseph Lister
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Pliny the Younger
Charles W. Eliot
Edgar Alan Poe
Saint Augustine
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
Francis Drake
Edward Haies
Niccolo Machiavelli
Ambroise Paré
William A. Neilson
Honoré Balzac
Alexander L. Kielland
The 'Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes' collection represents the pinnacle of literary anthologies, traversing the broad and rich landscape of human thought and creativity. Spanning various genres and styles, the compilation captures the profound diversities of intellectual discourse and artistic expression from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Among its highlights, readers will encounter philosophical treatises alongside poignant narratives, as timeless lyricism intermingles with scientific treatises. These curated works collectively articulate the enduring and complex tapestry of human experience, offering a glimpse into the literary art and thought leadership that have shaped civilizations. Curated by scholar Charles W. Eliot, this anthology brings together the eloquent voices of epoch-defining minds such as Goethe, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, along with scientists like Darwin and philosophers including Kant and Rousseau. The authors hail from a multitude of historical and cultural milieux; their works participating in an intellectual dialogue that delves into existential queries, societal norms, and poetic beauty. The diversity of authors in the Harvard Classics enhances its educational value, creating a confluence of ideas that mirror the intricate progressions of literary and historical paradigms throughout time. This monumental collection invites readers to navigate a variegated sea of masterful prose and profound philosophical inquiry. With perspectives ranging from the ancients like Plato to the modern wisdom of Twain, 'Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes' offers an unparalleled opportunity for both scholars and laymen to immerse themselves in the profound dialogues of the past. It is a definitive route to expanding one'Äôs intellectual horizons, fostering a dynamic exchange between some of history'Äôs most influential thinkers, and rendering a touchstone for those aspiring to comprehend the depth and breadth of human achievement through literature and thought.