Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Anthology : The Greatest Works of World Literature

Madison & Adams Press presents to you this meticulously edited collection of essential works to read, prepared by Dr. Eliot, the longest running president of the Harvard University:

V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn

V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius

V. 3: Bacon, Milton's Prose, Browne

V. 4 Complete Poems by John Milton

V. 5: Essays & English Traits by Emerson

V. 6: Poems and Songs by Robert Burns

V. 7: The Confessions of Saint Augustine & The Imitation of Christ

V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas

V. 9: Cicero and Pliny

V. 10: The Wealth of Nations

V. 11: The Origin of Species

V. 12: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

V. 13: Aeneid

V. 14: Don Quixote

V. 15: Bunyan & Walton

V. 16: The Thousand and One Nights

V. 17: Folklore & Fable: Aesop, Grimm & Andersen

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: French Revolution…

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

V. 26: Continental Drama

V. 27: English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay

V. 28: Essays: English and American

V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle

V. 30: Scientific Papers

V. 31: 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: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

V. 40: English Poetry 1: from Chaucer to Gray

V. 41: English Poetry 2: from Collins to Fitzgerald

V. 42: English Poetry 3: from Tennyson to Whitman

V. 43: American Historical Documents

V. 44: Sacred Writings 1: Confucian, Hebrew & Christian

V. 45: Sacred Writings 2: Christian, Buddhist, Hindu & Mohammedan

V. 46: Elizabethan Drama 1: Marlowe & Shakespeare

V. 47: Elizabethan Drama 2: Dekker, Jonson, Webster, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher

V. 48: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works of Pascal

V. 49: Epic and Saga

V. 50: The Editor's Introduction & Reader's Guide

V. 51: Lectures

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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George Gordon Byron
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Dante Alighieri
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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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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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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Thomas Dekker
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