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.
The Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Collection : The Greatest Works of World Literature
Authors:
- 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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Mein Leben 6
Benjamin Franklin
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El camino a la riqueza : El primer libro de educación financiera
Benjamin Franklin
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Mein Leben 5
Benjamin Franklin
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Mein Leben 4
Benjamin Franklin
audiobook
Yes You Can! - 50 Classic Self-Help Books That Will Guide You and Change Your Life
Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles, Benjamin Franklin, Dale Carnegie, Orison Swett Marden, Douglas Fairbanks, P.T. Barnum, Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius
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Mein Leben 3
Benjamin Franklin
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Mein Leben 2
Benjamin Franklin
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Leitfaden für weise Herrscher: Die Philosophie des Regierens : Vom Kriege, Selbstbetrachtungen, Der Fürst, Die Generalprinzipien des Krieges, Geschichte der Kriegskunst
Carl von Clausewitz, Friedrich der Große, Benjamin Franklin, Otto von Bismarck, Niccolò Machiavelli, Platon, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Karel Čapek, Hans Delbrück
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Die Kunst der Staatsführung: Regieren mit Weisheit : Die Meisterwerke philosophischer Strategie und Staatskunst: Der Staat, Selbstbetrachtungen, Der Fürst, Die Generalprinzipien des Krieges
Niccolò Machiavelli, Platon, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Carl von Clausewitz, Friedrich der Große, Benjamin Franklin, Otto von Bismarck, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Karel Čapek, Hans Delbrück
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The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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Autobiografía de Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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Die größten Philosophen der Aufklärung : Neues Organon, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Der Gesellschaftsvertrag, Candide, Monadologie, Mathematische Principien der Naturlehre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, David Hume, Johann Gottfried Herder, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, Montesquieu, Baruch Spinoza, Isaac Newton, Freiherr Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, René Descartes
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- 177 books
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was a founding father of the United States of America. He was a printer, publisher, author, inventor, scientist, and diplomat. Franklin is known for signing and drafting the Declaration of Independence, representing America during the American Revolution, and making significant contributions to science.
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire from 161 to 180 AD. Born to an upper-class Roman family in 121, Aurelius was adopted by his uncle, the emperor Antoninus Pius, in 138. Aurelius studied Greek and Latin literature, philosophy, and law, and was especially influenced by the Stoic thinker Epictetus. After Pius’s death, Aurelius succeeded the throne alongside his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus. His reign was marked by plague, numerous military conflicts, and the deaths of friends and family—including Lucius Verus in 169. Despite these struggles, the Empire flourished under Marcus’s rule as the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an era from 27 to 180 of relative peace and prosperity for the Roman Empire. Aurelius wrote his Meditations as spiritual exercises never intended for publication, and died at fifty-eight while on campaign against the Germanic tribes.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest playwright the world has seen. He produced an amount of work; 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 poems. He died on 23rd April 1616, aged 52, and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, changing his second name to ‘Louis’ at the age of eighteen. He has always been loved and admired by countless readers and critics for ‘the excitement, the fierce joy, the delight in strangeness, the pleasure in deep and dark adventures’ found in his classic stories and, without doubt, he created some of the most horribly unforgettable characters in literature and, above all, Mr. Edward Hyde.
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Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, best-known for his autobiographical story of life in the woods, WALDEN (1854). Thoreau became one of the leading personalities in New England Transcendentalism. He wrote tirelessly but earned from his books and journalism little. Thoreau's CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (1849) influenced Gandhi in his passive resistance campaigns, Martin Luther King, Jr., and at one time the politics of the British Labour Party. Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, which was center of his life, although he spent several years in his childhood in the neighboring towns and later elsewhere. He died of tuberculosis, and he is buried in his family's plot near the graves of his friends Hawthorne, Alcott, Emerson, and Channing on Author's Ridge in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau was a writer, composer, and philosopher that is widely recognized for his contributions to political philosophy. His most known writings are Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract.
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and is known as one of the foremost thinkers of Enlightenment. He is widely recognized for his contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy. An Englishman, Hobbes was heavily influenced by his country's civil war and wrote his preeminent work, Leviathan, about the relationship between the individual and the government during that period. Hobbes was a scholar, phauthoilosopher, and the author of several works on political and religious philosophy.
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John Milton
John Milton is a famous English poet and intellectual known for his epic, Paradise Lost.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leading proponent of the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-nineteenth century. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister at Harvard Divinity School but served for only three years before developing his own spiritual philosophy based on individualism and intuition. His essay Nature is arguably his best-known work and was both groundbreaking and highly controversial when it was first published. Emerson also wrote poetry and lectured widely across the US.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin’s (1809-1882) love of natural history led him to the Beagle. Twenty years after his voyage, his landmark work On the Origin of Species sparked immediate controversy and has continued to do so for 150 years. David Quammen is an acclaimed natural history writer and the author of The Song of the Dodo and The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, in addition to nearly a dozen other books.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes (September 29, 1547 – April 22, 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel, Don Quixote, was considered the first modern European novel and is a classic of Western literature.
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Wilhelm Grimm
With his brother Jacob, Wilhelm Grimm collected and published Germanic and European folk and fairy tales during the early to mid 19th century. Some of the world’s most classic and beloved stories have been published by them, including “Rumplestiltskin,” “Snow White,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Rapunzel,” “Cinderella,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and many more.
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Jacob Grimm
With his brother Wilhelm, Jacob Grimm collected and published Germanic and European folk and fairy tales during the early to mid 19th century. Some of the world’s most classic and beloved stories have been published by them, including “Rumplestiltskin,” “Snow White,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Rapunzel,” “Cinderella,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and many more.
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Hans Christian Andersen
One of the most prolific and beloved writers of all time, Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen is best known for his fairy tales. Born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805, Andersen published his first story at 17. In all, he wrote more than 150 stories before his death in 1875.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as one of the finest lyric poets in the English language.
Read more - 39 books
George Gordon Byron
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824), commonly known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri, born in Florence in 1265, became one of the leading lyric poets in Italy as a young man. He was exiled for political reasons, and in the last fifteen years of his life composed The Divine Comedy, of which the Inferno is the most-read part today.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was born of English descent in Dublin, Ireland in 1667. He went to school at Trinity College in Ireland, before moving to England at the age of 22. After a short stint in the Anglican Church, he began his career as a writer, satirizing religious, political, and educational institutions. He wrote in defense of the Irish people, especially in his A Modest Proposal, which made him a champion of his people. His most famous work is Gulliver’s Travels which was published anonymously in 1726.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.
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David Hume
David Hume is a widely recognized Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, and essayist. His most known works are A Treatise of Human Nature, concerning the Principles of Morals, and Enquiries concerning Human Understanding.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
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Thomas Malory
Thomas Malory was an English writer and the author of Le Morte d'Arthur.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy at a time when the country was in political upheaval. Italy was divided between four dominant city-states, and each of these was continually at the mercy of the stronger foreign governments of Europe. Since 1434 the wealthy Medici family ruled Florence. A reform movement, begun in 1494, temporarily interrupted their rule in which the young Machiavelli became an important diplomat. When the Medici family regained power in 1512 with the help of Spanish troops, Machiavelli was tortured and removed from public life. For the next 10 years he devoted himself to writing history, political philosophy, and even plays. He ultimately gained favor with the Medici family and was called back to public duty for the last two years of his life.
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Thomas Dekker
Thomas Dekker is a Dutch former professional cyclist whose talent on the bike quickly took him to the top of the sport. He raced for The Netherlands in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, won two Dutch National Time Trial Championships, and captured victories in the 2006 Tirreno-Adriatico and the 2007 Tour of Romandie. He rode for the Dutch Rabobank superteam and then Silence-Lotto before a retroactively tested sample returned positive for EPO. In 2009, Dekker was suspended for two years for the drug violation, and it was later confirmed during Operaction Puerto that Dekker was among the clients of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. After his suspension, Dekker joined the American Garmin Development Team and rode for Garmin-Barracuda from 2012-2014. Dekker claims to have ridden clean for Jonathan Vaughters and he became a popular rider in the American peloton. He retired after an attempt on the World Hour Record in 2015.
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