Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes
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, Washington Irving, Niccolò Machiavelli, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 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, Alighieri Dante, 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, Leigh Hunt, Abraham Cowley, Izaak Walton, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Hobbes, Virgil Virgil, Plato, Jean Racine, Björnstjerne Björnson, Gottfried Keller, Ernest Renan, Thomas a 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 Molière, Thomas Malory, Aesop, Homer
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Synopsis
The Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes represent an unprecedented anthology that endeavors to compile the quintessential works of Western literature, philosophy, and science. This collection spans millennia, from ancient Greece to the 19th century, and includes an array of literary styles—from the epic poetry of Homer to the existential queries of Dostoevsky, and the natural philosophy of Charles Darwin. The anthology is a testament to the evolution of human thought and the diversity of literary expression, presenting readers with monumental works that have shaped the intellectual landscape of the Western world. Each volume has been selected with the intent to provide a comprehensive liberal arts education through the written word, making standout pieces accessible within a singular collection. The contributing authors and editors of the Harvard Classics are a reflection of the sweeping historical, cultural, and philosophical movements captured within these pages. Figures such as Plato, Shakespeare, Kant, and Rousseau represent the pinnacle of their respective fields, whose works collectively narrate the progress and the constant questioning that define human civilization. This anthology aligns with significant movements including the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Scientific Revolution, offering a multifaceted look at the dialogues and discourses that have persistently propelled humanity forward. The diverse backgrounds of these authors contribute to a rich tapestry of human experience and intellectual endeavor, furnishing readers with a broad perspective on the universality and evolving nature of knowledge and creativity. The Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes is more than just a collection of texts; it is an invitation to explore the breadth and depth of human achievement. For scholars, students, and enthusiasts of literature and philosophy, this anthology offers an unrivaled opportunity to engage with the minds and ideas that have defined and continue to influence the world. Within its pages, readers will find not only education but inspiration, a chance to delve into the works of great thinkers and writers, and to foster a dialogue with the past that enriches their understanding of the present and future. Its unparalleled scope makes this collection an essential addition to any library, serving as a gateway to the exploration of the human condition through the ages.