Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes - A Great Books Library of Western Thought Literature Philosophy Science and History
Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, William Shakespeare, Juan Valera, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry David Thoreau, Niccolò Machiavelli, Henry James, Adam Smith, Hans Christian Andersen, MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, John Stuart Mill, SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Guy de Maupassant, David Hume, Thomas De Quincey, Saint Augustin, Immanuel Kant, René Descartes, Martin Luther, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Bunyan, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Henry Dana, William Makepeace Thackeray, Laurence Sterne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Plutarch Plutarch, Oliver Goldsmith, Dante Alighieri, Pliny the Younger, Robert Burns, Benvenuto Cellini, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Carlyle, JOHN RUSKIN, Edward Everett Hale, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Berkeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Dryden, Robert Browning, Joseph Addison, Bret Harte, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Edmund Burke, Alphonse Daudet, Alfred de Musset, Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Sand, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Pierre Corneille, Wilhelm Grimm, Henry Fielding, Richard Steele, William Penn, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, John Locke, Philip Massinger, Sydney Smith, Aeschylus Aeschylus, Charles Lamb, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, James Russell Lowell, Walter Scott, Theodor Storm, Simon Newcomb, Alessandro Manzoni, Ivan Turgenev, Thomas More, Theodor Fontane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leigh Hunt, Abraham Cowley, Izaak Walton, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Hobbes, Virgil Virgil, Plato, Jean Racine, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Gottfried Keller, Ernest Renan, Thomas Kempis, Friedrich von Schiller, Tacitus Tacitus, Honoré Balzac, John Webster, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Browne, Michael Faraday, Giuseppe Mazzini, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Gordon Byron, William Harvey, Thomas Dekker, Hippocrates Hippocrates, Charles Darwin, Ben Jonson, Joseph Lister, Francis Drake, Walter Bigges, Walter Raleigh, Charles W. Eliot, William Henry Harrison, Francis Pretty, Edward Haies, Jean Froissart, Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, John Woolman, Ambroise Paré, Louis Pasteur, Alexander L. Kielland, Leo Tolstoy, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Roper, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, John Milton, David Garrick, Philip Nichols, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Archibald Geikie, William A. Neilson, Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Voltaire, Epictetus Epictetus, Molière Moliere, Thomas Malory, Aesop Aesop, Homer Homer, Washington Irving
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Summary
Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes assembles an ambitious library of Western writing, thought, and discovery, ranging from ancient epic, tragedy, philosophy, and history to Renaissance humanism, Enlightenment inquiry, Romantic lyric, realist fiction, scientific exposition, political argument, and moral reflection. Its varied forms—dialogue, sermon, essay, drama, memoir, travel narrative, fable, and novel—make the set less a uniform canon than a capacious conversation across centuries. Landmark materials such as classical epics, Shakespearean drama, revolutionary political writings, and foundational scientific texts illuminate the changing relations among reason, faith, power, imagination, and experience. The contributors comprise poets, philosophers, dramatists, historians, reformers, theologians, novelists, and investigators from Greece and Rome through nineteenth-century Europe and America. Classical Stoicism, Christian humanism, the Reformation, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, realism, liberal political thought, and modern science all find representation. Figures associated with German, French, British, Italian, Scandinavian, Russian, Spanish, and American traditions bring distinct national and intellectual inheritances into contact, while editorial framing implicitly advances the early twentieth-century ideal of liberal education through sustained engagement with primary texts. This vast collection rewards readers seeking both breadth and depth: a single resource in which literary pleasure meets philosophical rigor, historical witness, and scientific curiosity. Students and general readers alike can trace enduring debates across genres and periods, discovering how each selection reframes the others. It is especially valuable as an invitation to comparative reading and to the continuing dialogue of the humanities.
Available since: 12/13/2023.
Print length: 30498 pages.
