The Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Collection

The Greatest Works of World LiteratureBy Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Burke, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, William Shakespeare, Homer, Friedrich von Schiller, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Richard Henry Dana, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolo Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, William A. Neilson
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The Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Collection offers an unparalleled exploration of the foundational texts that have shaped Western thought, literature, and science. This anthology encompasses a breathtaking array of genres and styles, ranging from the drama of Shakespeare and Sophocles to the philosophical treatises of Plato and Kant, and the insightful essays of Montaigne and Emerson. The collection is celebrated not only for its diversity but also for standout compilations that weave together the fibers of civilization's greatest achievements, offering readers a comprehensive panorama of human excellence across ages and cultures. The contributors to this monumental collection are a veritable who's who of historical luminaries, each lending their voice to the grand tapestry of this anthology. Whether it's the political theory of John Locke, the satirical prose of Jonathan Swift, or the scientific inquiries of Charles Darwin, each volume reflects a unique facet of the intellectual movements that have underpinned Western history. Their combined works not only delineate the contours of the literary and philosophical canon but also offer insights into the cultural and historical contexts from which these monumental ideas emerged. For scholars, students, and avid readers alike, The Harvard Classics provides a unique opportunity to engage with the seminal works of Western culture in a single collection. This anthology serves both as an educational tool and a portal to the past, allowing a deep, multifaceted understanding of the themes, ideas, and debates that have shaped our world. Readers are encouraged to delve into this rich collection, which promises not only a breadth of knowledge but also a stimulating encounter with the minds of history's greatest thinkers and writers.

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Table of contents

1The Harvard Classics Anthology
26The Preface
2Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN
27PART I: Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims
3The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin
28PART II: More Fruits of Solitude
4PART I (pt. 1)
29Vol. 2: PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS
5PART I (pt. 2)
30The Apology, by Plato
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6PART II
31Crito, by Plato
7PART III (pt. 1)
32Phaedo, by Plato (pt. 1)
8PART III (pt. 2)
33Phaedo, by Plato (pt. 2)
9PART IV
34The Golden Sayings, by Epictetus
10CHIEF EVENTS IN FRANKLIN'S LIFE
35I
11The Journal, by John Woolman
36XIV
12Chapter I
37LXV
13Chapter II
38CXII
14Chapter III
39CLXXI
15Chapter IV
40(APPENDIX A)
16Chapter V
41(APPENDIX B)
17Chapter VI
42The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
18Chapter VII
43Book One
19Chapter VIII
44Book Two
20Chapter IX
45Book Three
21Chapter X
46Book Four
22Chapter XI
47Book Five
23Chapter XII
48Book Six
24Chapter XIII
49Book Seven
25Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
50Book Eight

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