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The Harvard Classics Shelf : All 51 Volumes of Essential Classics + 20 Volumes of the Greatest Works of Fiction

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The Harvard Classics Shelf of Books stands as a monument of the greatest achievements in literature, science, and philosophy. Curated to impart a comprehensive liberal education, the collection spans from the writings of ancient tragedians like Euripides to the critical essays of Emerson and the novels of Jane Austen. There's a remarkable diversity in form and content, encompassing poetry, philosophy, plays, scientific papers, and foundational texts in political theory and ethics. Through this extensive range, the anthology demonstrates the evolution of human thought and the variety of ways it can be expressed, providing a unique insight into the collective intellectual heritage of humanity. The contributors to this monumental collection were not only pivotal figures in their respective fields but also architects of modern thinking across various disciplines. From the depth of Plato's philosophy to Darwin's groundbreaking work on natural selection, and Goethe's masterful storytelling, each author represented in this compendium brings their unique perspective to the anthology. These works, many of which spearheaded significant movements in their time, from the Enlightenment to Romanticism, and Naturalism, offer a panoramic view of human culture and its development. The diversity of the contributors, spanning different centuries, continents, and fields of study, allows for a rich dialogue between the texts, presenting a multifaceted understanding of the themes explored. The Harvard Classics Shelf invites readers on an unparalleled journey through the pinnacle of human intellectual achievement. This collection is indispensible not only for students and scholars but for anyone eager to engage with the seminal works that have shaped our world. For those seeking to broaden their horizons and deepen their understanding of myriad subjects through the lenses of the greatest minds, this anthology is a treasure trove. It illuminates the interconnectedness of human thought across time and disciplines, providing a rare opportunity to witness the conversation of ideas that has driven the advancement of civilization.

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

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