Harvard Classics (All 51 Volumes)

A Great Books Library of Philosophy, Science, History, Drama, and World LiteratureBy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Thomas Carlyle, Plato, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, Joseph Addison, John Locke, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, John Ruskin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ernest Renan, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Webster, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, James Russell Lowell, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Michael Faraday, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Voltaire, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Aristophanes, Blaise Pascal, Virgil, Simon Newcomb, William Penn, Walter Bigges, Philip Sidney, Herodotus, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Giuseppe Mazzini, Francis Pretty, George Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Alessandro Manzoni, Abraham Cowley, Michel de Montaigne, Ben Jonson, John Woolman, Benvenuto Cellini, Sydney Smith, Jean Froissart, William Henry Harrison, William Harvey, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Thomas Malory, George Gordon Byron, Thomas à Kempis, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Archibald Geikie, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Tacitus, William Roper, Hippocrates, Miguel de Cervantes, Thomas More, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Nichols, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pliny the Younger, Edgar Alan Poe, Saint Augustine, Brinsley Sheridan, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Francis Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ambroise Paré, William A. Neilson

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The Harvard Classics gathers fifty-one volumes of world literature, philosophy, history, science, religion, and political thought into an ambitious portable canon. Its range extends from epic, tragedy, drama, fable, essay, autobiography, scientific inquiry, and devotional prose to revolutionary argument and lyric meditation. Classical foundations stand beside Renaissance humanism, Enlightenment criticism, Romantic imagination, Victorian social reflection, and modern scientific discovery; landmark dialogues, Shakespearean drama, Dantean vision, and Darwinian exposition exemplify its exceptional breadth. Its contributors form a transhistorical commonwealth: Greek and Roman philosophers, dramatists, and historians converse with medieval theologians, early modern explorers and reformers, and European and American essayists, poets, novelists, scientists, and statesmen. Voices associated with humanism, the Reformation, empiricism, liberal political theory, transcendentalism, Romanticism, and the rise of modern science collectively trace changing conceptions of reason, faith, liberty, nature, and artistic form. The collection's organizing vision makes these traditions mutually illuminating rather than merely sequential. This set rewards readers seeking both an education in influential texts and a critical encounter with the assumptions of the Western canon. Within one capacious library, readers can compare genres, test competing moral and political claims, and follow enduring debates across centuries. It is especially valuable as an invitation to sustained reading, historical inquiry, and dialogue among works whose differences remain as instructive as their shared cultural authority.

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