"The Harvard Classics The Shelf of Fiction Selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD 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. NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON, 1909?1917, NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001, The Harvard Classics VOL. I. --- His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin --- Journal, by John Woolman --- Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn II. --- The Apology, Ph�do and Crito of Plato --- The Golden Sayings of Epictetus --- The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius III. --- Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon --- Areopagitica & Tractate on Education, by John Milton --- Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne IV. --- Complete Poems Written in English, by John Milton V. --- Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson VI. --- Poems and Songs, by Robert Burns --- VII. --- The Confessions of Saint Augustine --- The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas � Kempis --- VIII. --- Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, The Furies & Prometheus Bound of --- Aeschylus --- Oedipus the King & Antigone of Sophocles --- Hippolytus & The Bacch� of Euripides --- The Frogs of Aristophanes IX. --- On Friendship, On Old Age & Letters, by Cicero --- Letters, by Pliny the Younger X. --- Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith XI. --- The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin XII. --- Lives, by Plutarch XIII. --- �neid, by Vergil XIV. --- Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes XV. --- The Pilgrim?s Progress, by John Bunyan --- The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton XVI. --- Stories from the Thousand and One Nights XVII. --- Fables, by �sop --- Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm --- Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen XVIII. --- 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 --- XIX. --- Faust, Part I, Egmont & Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe --- Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe XX. --- The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri XXI. --- I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni XXII. --- The Odyssey of Homer XXIII. --- Two Years before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. XXIV. --- On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French --- Revolution & A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke XXV. --- Autobiography & On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill --- Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott, by --- Thomas Carlyle XXVI. --- Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calder�n de la Barca --- Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille --- Ph�dra, by Jean Racine --- Tartuffe, by Moli�re --- Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing --- Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller XXVII. English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay XXVIII. Essays: English and American XXIX. The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin XXX. --- Scientific Papers XXXI. --- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini XXXII. --- Literary and Philosophical Essays XXXIII. --- Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern XXXIV. --- Discourse on Method, by Ren� Descartes --- Letters on the English, by Voltaire --- On the Inequality among Mankind & Profession of Faith of a Savoyard --- Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau --- Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes XXXV. --- The Chronicles of Jean Froissart --- The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory --- A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison XXXVI. --- The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli --- The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper --- Utopia, by Sir Thomas More --- The Ninety-Five Thesis, Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning --- Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther XXXVII. --- 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 XXXVIII. --- The Oath of Hippocrates --- Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Par� --- 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 XXXIX. --- Prefaces and Prologues XL. --- English Poetry I: Chaucer to Gray XLI. --- English Poetry II: Collins to Fitzgerald XLII. --- English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman XLIII. --- American Historical Documents: 1000?1904 XLIV. --- Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius --- Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes --- Christian I: Luke & Acts XLV. --- Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns --- Buddhist: Writings --- Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita --- Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran XLVI. --- Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe --- Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest, by William Shakespeare XLVII. --- 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 XLVIII. --- Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal XLIX. --- Epic & Saga: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Destruction of D� --- Derga?s Hostel & The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs LI. --- Lectures on the Harvard Classics "listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door, let's go" -- ee cummings