Harvard on the Beach : The Complete 71 Volumes of Harvard Classics (The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction): The Infamous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

Get smarter on the sun! Whether that be on the beach or in the deck chair on your terrace or backyard.

The Harvard Classics in 51 volumes include the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In addition – there are 20 volumes of the greatest works of fiction.

Content:

The Harvard Classics:

V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn

V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius

V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne

V. 4: John Milton

V. 5: R. W. Emerson

V. 6: Robert Burns

V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis

V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas

V. 9: Cicero and Pliny

V. 10: The Wealth of Nations

V. 11: The Origin of Species

V. 12: Plutarchs

V. 13: Æneid

V. 14: Don Quixote

V. 15: Bunyan & Walton

V. 16: 1001 Nights

V. 17: Folklore & Fable

V. 18: Modern English Drama

V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe

V. 20: The Divine Comedy

V. 21: I Promessi Sposi

V. 22: The Odyssey

V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast

V. 24: Edmund Burke

V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle

V. 26: Continental Drama

V. 27 & 28: English & American Essays

V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle

V. 30: Scientific Papers

V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays

V. 33: Voyages & Travels

V. 34: French & English Philosophers

V. 35: Chronicle and Romance

V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther

V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume

V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur

V. 39: Prologues

V. 40–42: English Poetry

V. 43: American Historical Documents

V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings

V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama

V. 48: Blaise Pascal

V. 49: Saga

V. 50: Reader's Guide

V. 51: Lectures

The Shelf of Fiction:

V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones

V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice

V. 4: Guy Mannering

V. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair

V. 7 & 8: David Copperfield

V. 9: The Mill on the Floss

V. 10: Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale

V.11: The Portrait of a Lady

V. 12: Notre Dame de Paris

V. 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant

V. 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane

V. 16–19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev

V. 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland

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