Harvard Classics – 52 Volumes Vintage e-Books on 1 DVD

A full collection of Harvard Classics available on Data 1 DVD.

The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.n 1910, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, then President of Harvard University, put together an extraordinary library of "all the books needed for a real education."

"Dr.Charles W.Eliot, the former Harvard president who edited the series, maintained that if one read just 15 minutes a day from the 51 volumes he assembled, it would constitute "a good substitute for a liberal education to anyone who would read them with devotion."

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More than 24000* Pages!

52 E-books in PDF Format!

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Harvard Classics – 52 Volumes Vintage e-Books on 1 DVD:

Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN - His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin;  Journal , by John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn

 

Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS - The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito, by Plato; The Golden Sayings, by Epictetus; The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

 

Vol. 3. BACON, MILTON'S PROSE, THOS. BROWNE - Essays, Civil and Moral, and New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate of Education, by John Milton; Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne

 

Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON - Complete poems written in English, by John Milton

 

Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON - Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS - Poems and songs, by Robert Burns

 

Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATIONS OF CHRIST - The Confessions, by Saint Augustine; The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis

 

Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS - Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies, and Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus; Oedipus the King and Antigone, by Sophocles; Hippolytus and The Bacchae, by Euripides; The Frogs, by Aristophanes

 

Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY - On Friendship, On Old Age, and letters, by Cicero; Letters, by Pliny the Younger

 

Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH - The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith

 

Vol. 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN - The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin

 

Vol. 12. PLUTARCH'S LIVES - Lives, by Plutarch

 

Vol. 13. AENEID, VIRGIL - Aeneid, by Virgil

 

Vol. 14. DON QUIXOTE, Part 1, CERVANTES - Don Quixote, part 1, by Cervantes

 

Vol. 15. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON - The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan; The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton

 

Vol. 16. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS - Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

 

Vol. 17. FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSON - Fables, by Aesop; Children's and Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen

 

Vol. 18. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA - 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

 

Vol. 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE - Faust, part 1, Egmont, and Hermann and Dorothea, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe

 

Vol. 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE - The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri

 

Vol. 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI - I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni

 

Vol. 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER - The Odyssey, by Homer

 

Vol. 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA - Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

 

Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE - On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution, and A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke

 

Vol. 25. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE - Autobiography and On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, and Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle

 

Vol. 26. CONTINENTAL DRAMA - Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca; Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille; Phèdre, by Jean Racine; Tartuffe, by Molière; Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; William Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller

 

Vol. 27. ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY

 

Vol. 28. ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN

 

Vol. 29. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN - The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin

 

Vol. 30. FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC - The Forces of Matter and The Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael Faraday; On the Conservation of Force and Ice and Glaciers, by Hermann von Helmholtz; The Wave Theory of Light and The Tides, by Lord Kelvin; The Extent of the Universe, by Simon Newcomb; Geographical Evolution, by Sir Archibald Geikie

 

Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI - The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

 

Vol. 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS - Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne; Montaigne and What is a Classic?, by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve; The Poetry of the Celtic Races, by Ernest Renan; The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Letters upon the Aesthetic; Education of Man, by Friedrich von Schiller; Fundamental Principles of the; Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant; Byron and Goethe, by Giuseppe Mazzini

 

Vol. 33. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS - An account of Egypt from The Histories, by Herodotus; Germany, by Tacitus; Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols; Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World, by Francis Pretty; Drake's Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges; Sir Humphrey; Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland, by Edward Haies; The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh

 

Vol. 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES - Discourse on Method, by René Descartes

Letters on the English, by Voltaire; On the Inequality among Mankind and; Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau; Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes

 

Vol. 35. CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD - Chronicles, by Jean Froissart; The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory; A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison

 

Vol. 36. MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER - The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli; The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper; Utopia, by Sir Thomas More; The Ninety-Five Theses, Address to the Christian Nobility, and; Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther

 

Vol. 37. LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME - Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke; Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to; Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume

 

Vol. 38. HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR - The Oath of Hippocrates

Journeys in Diverse Places, by 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; Scientific papers, by Louis Pasteur; Scientific papers, by Charles Lyell

 

Vol. 39. FAMOUS PREFACES

 

Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1: CHAUCER TO GRAY

 

Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD

 

Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN

 

Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

 

Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS 1 - Confucian: The sayings of Confucius; Hebrew: Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes; Christian I: Luke and Acts

 

Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS 2 - Christian II: Corinthians I and II and hymns

Buddhist: Writings; Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita; Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran

 

Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1 - Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe; Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest, by William Shakespeare

 

Vol. 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2 - The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker; The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson; Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher; The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster; A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger

 

Vol. 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL - Thoughts, letters, and minor works, by Blaise Pascal

 

Vol. 49. EPIC AND SAGA – Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel; The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs

 

Vol. 50. INTRODUCTION, READER'S GUIDE, INDEXES

 

Vol. 51. LECTURES - The last volume contains sixty lectures introducing and summarizing the covered fields: history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, travelogues, and religion.

 

Vol. 52. THE READING GUIDE; FIFTEEN MINUTES A DAY

*Pages are counted as is, that includes covers/library cards, etc. The amount of pages with actual text might be slightly lower than the original count of 24000.

 

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