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THE HARVARD

CLASSICS

World Literature Anthology

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THE COMPLETE SET OF 72 VOLUMES ON USB FLASH DRIVE!

The Harvard Classics, also known as ‘Dr Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf’, is an anthology comprising of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909.

Eliot also compiled the 20 volume ‘Shelf of Fiction’. Ultimately, these 72 volumes cover every major literary figure, philosophy, folklore, belief and historical subject through the 20^th century and are without doubt the most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time. A quick look through the works included in the list of volumes below confirms this. Overall, your chance to own a piece of literary history in modern digital format at a very small price….

This superb compilation of 72 vintage books on USB flash drive provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

The Full List of Volumes / Works is as Follows:

The Harvard Classics – Dr Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf:

Vol. 1:

His Autobiography – Benjamin Franklin

Journal – John Woolman

Fruits of Solitude – William Penn

Vol. 2:

The Apology of Socrates – Plato

Crito – Plato

Phaedo – Plato

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus – Epictetus

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius – Marcus Aurelius

Vol. 3:

Essays, Civil & Moral – Francis Bacon

The New Atlantis – Francis Bacon

Areopagitica – John Milton

Tractate on Education – John Milton

Religio Medici – Sir Thomas Browne

Vol. 4:

Complete Poems Written in English – John Milton

Vol. 5:

Essays and English Traits – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vol. 6:

Poems and Songs – Robert Burns

Vol. 7:

The Confessions of Saint Augustine – Saint Augustine

The Imitation of Christ – Thomas A. Kempis

Vol. 8:

Agamemmon – Aeschylus

The Libation-Bearers – Aeschylus

The Furies – Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus

Oepidus the King – Sophocles

Hippolytus – Euripides

The Bacchae – Euripides

The Frogs – Aristophanes

Vol. 9:

On Friendship – Cicero

On Old Age – Cicero

Letters – Cicero

Letters – Pliny the Younger

Vol. 10:

Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith

Vol. 11:

The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin

Vol. 12:

Lives – Plutarch

Vol. 13:

Aeneid – Virgil

Vol. 14:

Don Quixote, Part 1 – Cervantes

Vol. 15:

The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan

The Lives of Donne and Herbert – Izaak Walton

Vol. 16:

Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

Vol. 17:

Fables – Aesop

Household Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Tales – Hans Christian Andersen

Vol. 18:

All for Love – John Dryden

The School for Scandal – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

She Stoops to Conquer – Oliver Goldsmith

The Cenci – Percy Byssche Shelley

A Blot in the ‘Scutcheon – Robert Browning

Manfred – Lord Byron

Vol. 19:

Faust, Part 1 – J. W. von Goethe

Egmont – J. W. von Goethe

Hermann and Dorothea – J. W. von Goethe

Dr. Faustus – Christopher Marlow

Vol. 20:

The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri

Vol. 21:

I Promessi Sposi – Alessandro Manzoni

Vol. 22:

The Odyssey – Homer

Vol. 23:

Two Years before the Mast – Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Vol. 24:

On Taste – Edmund Burke

On the Sublime and Beautiful – Edmund Burke

Reflections on the French Revolution – Edmund Burke

A Letter to a Noble Lord – Edmund Burke

Vol. 25:

Autobiography – John Stuart Mill

On Liberty – John Stuart Mill

Characteristics – Thomas Carlyle

Inaugural Address at Edinburgh – Thomas Carlyle

Vol. 26:

Life is a Dream – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Polyeucte – Pierre Cornielle

Phaedra – Jean Racine

Tartuffe – Moliere

Minna von Barnhelm – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Wihelm Tell – Freidrich von Schiller

Vol. 27:

English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay

Vol. 28:

Essays: English and American

Vol. 29:

The Voyage of the Beagle – Charles Darwin

Vol. 30:

Scientific Papers

Vol. 31:

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini – Benvenuto Cellini

Vol. 32:

Literary and Philosophical Essays

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Ernest Renan

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

J. C. Friedrich von Schiller

Immanuel Kant

Giuseppe Mazzini

Vol. 33:

Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern

Vol. 34:

Discourse on Method – Rene Descartes

Letters on the English – Voltaire

On the Inequality among Mankind – Jean Jacques Rousseau

Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar – Rousseau

Of Man, Being the first part of Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes

Vol. 35:

The Chronicles of Jean Froissart – Jean Froissart

The Holy Grail – Sir Thomas Malory

A Description of Elizabeth England – William Harrison

Vol. 36:

The Prince – Nicolo Machiavelli

The Life of sir Thomas More – William Roper

Utopia – Sir Thomas More

The Ninety-Five Thesis – Martin Luther

Address to the Christian Nobility – Martin Luther

Concerning Christian Liberty – Martin Luther

Vol. 37:

Some Thoughts Concerning Education –John Locke

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists – George Berkeley

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume

Vol. 38:

The Oath of Hippocrates – Hippocrates

Journeys in Diverse Places – Ambroise Pare

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals – William Harvey

The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox – Edward Jenner

The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever – Oliver Wendell Holmes

On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery – Joseph Lister

Scientific Papers – Louis Pasteur

Scientific Papers – Charles Lyell

Vol. 39:

Prefaces and Prologues

Vol. 40:

English Poetry Pt. 1: Chaucer to Gray

Vol. 41:

English Poetry Pt. 2: Collins to Fitzgerald

Vol. 42:

English Poetry Pt. 3: Tennyson to Whitman

Vol. 43:

American Historical Documents: 1000 - 1904

Vol. 44:

Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius

Hebrew: Job

Hebrew: Psalms

Hebrew: Ecclesiastes

Christian I: Luke

Christian I: Acts

Vol. 45:

Christian II: Corinthians I

Christian II: Corinthians II

Christian II: Hymns

Buddhist: Writings

Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita

Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran

Vol. 46:

Edward the Second – Christian Marlowe

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

King Lear – Shakespeare

Macbeth – Shakespeare

The Tempest – Shakespeare

Vol. 47:

The Shoemaker’s Holiday – Thomas Dekker

The Alchemist – Ben Johnson

Philaster – Beaumont and Fletcher

The Duchess of Malfi – John Webster

A New Way to Pay Old Debts – Philip Massinger

Vol. 48:

Thoughts – Blaise Pascal

Letters – Pascal

Minor Works – Pascal

Vol. 49:

Epic & Saga: Beowulf

Epic & Saga: The Song of Roland

Epic & Saga: The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel

Epic & Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs

Vol. 50:

Introduction, Reader’s Guide & Indexes

Vol. 51:

Lectures on the Harvard Classics

Vol. 52:

The Reading Guide: Fifteen Minutes a Day

The Harvard Classics – The Shelf of Fiction:

Vols. 1 & 2:

The History of Tom Jones – Henry Fielding

Vol. 3:

A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne

Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen

Vol. 4:

Guy Mannering – Sir Walter Scott

Vols. 5 & 6:

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Vols. 7 & 8:

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

Vol. 9:

The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot

Vol. 10:

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rappaccini’s Daughter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rip Van Winkel – Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving

Three Short Stories – Edgar Allan Poe

Three Short Stories – Francis Bret Harte

Jim Smily and his Jumping Frog – Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)

The Man Without a Country – Edward Everett Hale

Vol. 11:

The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James

Vol. 12:

Notre Dame de Paris – Victor Marie Hugo

Vol. 13:

Old Goriot – Honore de Balzac

The Devil’s Pool – George Sand

The Story of a White Blackbird – Alfred de Musset

Five Short Stories – Alphonse Daudet

Two Short Stories – Guy de Maupassant

Vols. 14 & 15:

Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – J. W. von Goethe

The Sorrows of Werther – J. W. von Goethe

The Banner of the Upright Seven – Gottfried Keller

The Rider on the White Horse – Theodor Storm

Trials and Tribulations – Theodor Fontane

Vols. 16 & 17:

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Ivan the Fool – Leo Tolstoy

Vol. 18:

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vol. 19:

A House of Gentlefolk – Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Children – Ivan Turgenev

Vol. 20:

Pepita Jeminez – Juan Valera

A Happy Boy – Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Skipper Worse – Alexander L. Kielland

The greatest anthology of all time, a complete set of 72 volumes – an unbelievable treasure trove of world literature for a very small price!

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