Harvard Classics - Aesop, Dante Alighieri, Hans Christian Andersen, Augustine of Hippo, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Francis Bacon, Honoré de Balzac, Francis Beaumont, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Thomas Browne, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Edmund Burke, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle, Benvenuto Cellini, Miguel de Cervantes, Cicero, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Charles Darwin, Alphonse Daudet, Thomas Dekker, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, John Dryden, Charles W. Eliot, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Epictetus, John Fletcher, Theodor Fontane, Benjamin Franklin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Oliver Goldsmith, The Brothers Grimm, Edward Everett Hale, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Henry James, Ben Jonson, Gottfried Keller, Thomas à Kempis, Alexander L. Kielland, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alessandro Manzoni, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Massinger, Guy de Maupassant, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, Thomas More, William Morris, Alfred de Musset, William Allan Neilson, William Penn, Plato, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, George Sand, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Adam Smith, Laurence Sterne, Theodor Storm, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, Juan Valera, Virgil, Izaak Walton, John Webster & John Woolman

Harvard Classics

ByAesop, Dante Alighieri, Hans Christian Andersen, Augustine of Hippo, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Francis Bacon, Honoré de Balzac, Francis Beaumont, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Thomas Browne, Robert Browning, John Bunyan, Edmund Burke, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle, Benvenuto Cellini, Miguel de Cervantes, Cicero, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Charles Darwin, Alphonse Daudet, Thomas Dekker, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, John Dryden, Charles W. Eliot, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Epictetus, John Fletcher, Theodor Fontane, Benjamin Franklin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Oliver Goldsmith, The Brothers Grimm, Edward Everett Hale, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Henry James, Ben Jonson, Gottfried Keller, Thomas à Kempis, Alexander L. Kielland, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alessandro Manzoni, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Massinger, Guy de Maupassant, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, Thomas More, William Morris, Alfred de Musset, William Allan Neilson, William Penn, Plato, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, George Sand, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Adam Smith, Laurence Sterne, Theodor Storm, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, Juan Valera, Virgil, Izaak Walton, John Webster & John Woolman

  • Release Date: 2026-09-02
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature

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Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer, Cervantes, Milton, Adam Smith, and dozens more join this sweeping survey of the ideas and stories that built a civilization. Known for generations as "the Five-Foot Shelf," this collection remains one of the most ambitious reading programs ever assembled. This Chronicle Vault edition presents the complete, unabridged texts in a clean, fully reflowable format for all e-readers.

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