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Harvard's Classics Collection: Complete 71 Volumes : The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction - The Classic Literature & The Greatest Works of Fiction from Antics to Modern Age

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Harvard's Classics Collection: Complete 71 Volumes stands as a monumental anthology encompassing a vast range of influential literary works that have shaped Western thought and culture. Cueing from classical antiquity to the threshold of the modern era, this collection astutely merges genres, philosophical discourse, dramatic narratives, and lyrical poetry to sketch the evolution of human intellect and aesthetics over millennia. Its robust selection brings together the elemental compositions of ancient tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides with the enlightened prose of the Renaissance and the keen insights of the Enlightenment philosophers, displaying a deliberate assembly that highlights humanism's pervasive reach and the ongoing dialogue between the past and present intellectual epochs. The anthology benefits immensely from the illustrious backgrounds of its authors—figures who not only penned foundational texts but also actively participated in the construction of intellectual frameworks across various epochs. Bringing together dramatists, philosophers, poets, and scientists such as Shakespeare, Dante, Plato, Darwin, and Kant, the collection offers a nuanced perspective on influential historical and cultural movements, from ancient philosophies to the scientific revolutions and literary reawakenings. The diversity in authorship and thought underscores a rich tapestry of human inquiry and the collective urge towards understanding and expressing the human condition. For the discerning reader, Harvard's Classics Collection provides an unparalleled journey through the corridors of human thought and expression. Each volume serves as a gateway to the multitude of voices, styles, and themes that have defined and redefined our cultural and intellectual landscapes. This anthology not only educates but also inspires a deeper appreciation for the complexities and breadth of human achievements. It is an essential resource for scholars, educators, and anyone with a keen interest in the legacy of human thought and its relevance to contemporary discussions and understandings.


Author: Plato Author: Epictetus Author: Marcus Aurelius Author: Francis Bacon Author: John Milton Author: Thomas Browne Author: Benjamin Franklin Author: John Woolman Author: William Penn Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Author: Robert Burns Author: Saint Augustine Author: Thomas à Kempis Author: Aeschylus Author: Sophocles Author: Euripides Author: Aristophanes Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero Author: Pliny the Younger Author: Adam Smith Author: Charles Darwin Author: Plutarch Author: Virgil Author: Miguel de Cervantes Author: John Bunyan Author: Izaak Walton Author: Aesop Author: Wilhelm Grimm Author: Hans Christian Andersen Author: John Dryden Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan Author: David Garrick Author: Oliver Goldsmith Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Author: Robert Browning Author: George Gordon Byron Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Author: Christopher Marlowe Author: Dante Alighieri Author: Alessandro Manzoni Author: Homer Author: Richard Henry Dana Author: Edmund Burke Author: John Stuart Mill Author: Thomas Carlyle Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca Author: Pierre Corneille Author: Jean Racine Author: Molière Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Author: Friedrich von Schiller Author: Philip Sidney Author: Ben Jonson Author: Abraham Cowley Author: Joseph Addison Author: Richard Steele Author: Jonathan Swift Author: Daniel Defoe Author: Samuel Johnson Author: David Hume Author: Sydney Smith Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Author: William Hazlitt Author: Leigh Hunt Author: Charles Lamb Author: Thomas De Quincey Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Author: William Makepeace Thackeray Author: John Ruskin Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Author: Edgar Alan Poe Author: Henry David Thoreau Author: James Russell Lowell Author: Michael Faraday Author: Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz Author: Simon Newcomb Author: Archibald Geikie Author: Benvenuto Cellini Author: Michel de Montaigne Author: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Author: Ernest Renan Author: Immanuel Kant Author: Giuseppe Mazzini Author: Herodotus Author: Tacitus Author: Francis Drake Author: Philip Nichols Author: Francis Pretty Author: Walter Bigges Author: Edward Haies Author: Walter Raleigh Author: René Descartes Author: Voltaire Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau Author: Thomas Hobbes Author: Jean Froissart Author: Thomas Malory Author: William Henry Harrison Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Author: William Roper Author: Thomas More Author: Martin Luther Author: John Locke Author: George Berkeley Author: Hippocrates Author: Ambroise Paré Author: William Harvey Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Author: Joseph Lister Author: Louis Pasteur Author: William Shakespeare Author: Thomas Dekker Author: Francis Beaumont Author: John Fletcher Author: John Webster Author: Philip Massinger Author: Blaise Pascal Author: Charles W. Eliot Author: William A. Neilson Author: Henry Fielding Author: Laurence Sterne Author: Jane Austen Author: Walter Scott Author: George Eliot Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Author: Washington Irving Author: Bret Harte Author: Mark Twain Author: Edward Everett Hale Author: Henry James Author: Victor Hugo Author: Honoré Balzac Author: George Sand Author: Alfred de Musset Author: Alphonse Daudet Author: Guy de Maupassant Author: Gottfried Keller Author: Theodor Storm Author: Theodor Fontane Author: Leo Tolstoy Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Author: Ivan Turgenev Author: Juan Valera Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Author: Alexander L. Kielland