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Harvard Classics

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, that was first published in 1909.

  • A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. Autor: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
  • A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales. Autor: Nield, Jonathan, 1863-.
  • A Happy Boy. Autor: Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 1832-1910.
  • A House of Gentlefolk. Autor: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883.
  • A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Autor: Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
  • Aesop's Fables. Autor: Aesop, 620 BC-563 BC.
  • All for Love. Autor: Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Autor: Hume, David, 1711-1776.
  • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Autor: Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
  • Andersen's Fairy Tales. Autor: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
  • Andersen's Fairy Tales. Autor: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
  • Anna Karenina. Autor: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910.
  • Apology. Autor: Plato, 427? BC-347? BC.
  • Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates. Autor: Plato, 427? BC-347? BC.
  • Areopagitica - A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England. Autor: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
  • Autobiography. Autor: Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Autor: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
  • Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. Autor: Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571.
  • Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series). Autor: Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed.
  • David Copperfield. Autor: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
  • Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences. Autor: Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
  • Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences. Autor: Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
  • Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete. Autor: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
  • Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete. Autor: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
  • Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell. Autor: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
  • Don Quixote. Autor: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
  • Edward the Second. Autor: Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
  • Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Autor: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
  • Essays of Francis Bacon. Autor: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
  • Essays — First Series. Autor: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
  • Father Goriot. Autor: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
  • Faust. Autor: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
  • Faust — Part 1. Autor: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
  • Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe. Autor: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
  • Guy Mannering. Autor: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832.
  • Guy Mannering — Complete. Autor: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832.
  • Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete. Autor: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832.
  • Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01. Autor: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832.
  • Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American. Autor: Various.
  • Hippolytus/The Bacchae. Autor: Euripides.
  • History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Autor: Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
  • La mare au diable. English-The Devil's Pool. Autor: Sand, George, 1804-1876.
  • Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1. Autor: Pliny, the Younger, 62?-113.
  • Letters on England. Autor: Voltaire, 1694-1778.
  • Leviathan. Autor: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
  • Life Is a Dream. Autor: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681.
  • Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian. Autor: Various and Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.
  • Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2. Autor: Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.
  • Meditations. Autor: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180.
  • Minna Von Barnhelm. Autor: Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781.
  • Notre-Dame De Paris. Autor: Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.
  • Oedipus Trilogy. Autor: Sophocles, 495? BC-406 BC.
  • On the origin of species-On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Autor: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
  • On the origin of species-The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition. Autor: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
  • Pascal's Pensées. Autor: Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.
  • Pathfinder; or, the inland sea. Autor: Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851.
  • Philaster - Love Lies a Bleeding. Autor: Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616 and Fletcher, John, 1579-1625.
  • Phèdre. English-Phaedra. Autor: Racine, Jean Baptiste, 1639-1699.
  • Plutarch's Lives, Volume I. Autor: Plutarch, 46-120?.
  • Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans. Autor: Plutarch, 46-120?.
  • Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. Autor: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.
  • Poetical Works. Autor: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
  • Polyeucte. Autor: Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684.
  • Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations. Autor: .
  • Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English-Crime and Punishment. Autor: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
  • Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend. Autor: Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
  • School for Scandal. Autor: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
  • She Stoops to Conquer. Autor: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730-1774.
  • Tartuffe - Or, the Hypocrite. Autor: Molière, 1622-1673.
  • The Aeneid - English. Autor: Virgil, 70 BC-19 BC.
  • The Aeneid of Virgil. Autor: Virgil, 70 BC-19 BC.
  • The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor. Autor: Virgil, 70 BC-19 BC.
  • The Agamemnon of Aeschylus - Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes. Autor: Aeschylus, 525 BC-456 BC.
  • The Alchemist. Autor: Jonson, Ben, 1573-1637.
  • The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics). Autor: Confucius, 551 BC-479 BC.
  • The Arabian Nights - Their Best-known Tales. Autor: Unknown.
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Autor: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
  • The Bible, King James version, Book 18: Job. Autor: Anonymous.
  • The Bible, King James version, Book 42: Luke. Autor: Anonymous.
  • The Bible, King James version, Book 46: 1 Corinthians. Autor: Anonymous.
  • The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls. Autor: Plutarch, 46-120?.
  • The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1. Autor: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
  • The Confessions of St. Augustine. Autor: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430.
  • The Duchess of Malfi. Autor: Webster, John, 1580-1625.
  • The Frogs. Autor: Aristophanes, 446? BC-385? BC.
  • The Golden Sayings of Epictetus. Autor: Epictetus, circa 55-135 AD.
  • The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology). Autor: Various.
  • The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga - With Introductions And Notes. Autor: .
  • The Imitation of Christ. Autor: Thomas, à Kempis, 1380?-1471.
  • The Koran (Al-Qur'an). Autor: .
  • The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 - The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order. Autor: Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106 BC-43 BC.
  • The Letters of Pliny the Younger. Autor: Pliny, the Younger, 62?-113.
  • The Mill on the Floss. Autor: Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
  • The Odyssey. Autor: Homer, 750? BC-650? BC.
  • The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan. Autor: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
  • The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1. Autor: James, Henry, 1843-1916.
  • The Prince. Autor: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.
  • The Scarlet Letter. Autor: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
  • The Song celestial; or, Bhagabad-gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) being a discourse between Arjuna, prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna. Autor: Anonymous.
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther. Autor: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
  • The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - From the Quarto of 1604. Autor: Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
  • The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - From the Quarto of 1616. Autor: Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
  • The Voyage of the Beagle. Autor: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
  • The Voyage of the Beagle. Autor: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
  • The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4. Autor: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
  • The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12). Autor: Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
  • The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction. Autor: Various.
  • The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction. Autor: Various.
  • The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters. Autor: Various.
  • The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy. Autor: Various.
  • Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. Autor: Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
  • Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side. Autor: .
  • Treatises on Friendship and Old Age. Autor: Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 106 BC-43 BC.
  • Two Years Before the Mast. Autor: Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882.
  • Utopia. Autor: More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478?-1535.
  • Vanity Fair. Autor: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
  • Wilhelm Tell. Autor: Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, 1759-1805.
  • Wilhelm Tell. Autor: Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, 1759-1805.