Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes - Exploring Literary and Philosophical Masterpieces from Harvard Classics Anthology
Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, William Shakespeare, Juan Valera, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry David Thoreau, Ambrose Bierce, 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 Augustine, 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 à 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, Molière Moliere, Thomas Malory, Aesop Aesop, Homer Homer
Publisher: Good Press
Summary
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.
Available since: 12/29/2023.
Print length: 30498 pages.
