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First Edition
51 volumes
Edited by Charles W. Eliot, LL.D.
The Harvard Classics
New York
F. P. Collier & Son Company
1909


  1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude by William Penn

  2. The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato (translated by Benjamin Jowett); The Golden Sayings of Epictetus (translated by Hastings Crossley); The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (translated by George Long)

  3. Essays Civil and Moral and The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education by John Milton; Religion Medici by Sir Thomas Browne

  4. The Complete Poems of John Milton

  5. Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  6. The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

  7. The Confessions of St. Augustine (Translated by Edward B. Pusey); The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis (Translated by William Benham)

  8. Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes

  9. Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with his Treatises on Friendship and Old Age (Translated by E. S. Shuckburgh); Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Translated by William Melmoth)

  10. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

  11. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

  12. Plutarch’s Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Caesar and Antony (in the translation called Dryden’s corrected and revised by Arthur Hugh Clough

  13. Virgil’s Aeneid (translated by John Dryden)

  14. The First Part of the Most Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes (translated by Thomas Shelton)

  15. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan; The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert by Izaak Walton

  16. Stories from The One Thousand and One Nights (translated by Edward William Lane)

  17. Folk-Lore and Fable (Aesop, Grimm, Andersen)

  18. Modern English Drama (Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron)

  19. Faust Part I; Egmont; Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 

  20. The Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise by Dante Alighieri (Translated by Henry F. Cary)

  21. I Promessi Sops (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni

  22. The Odyssey of Homer (translated by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang)

  23. Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After by R. H. Dana, jr.

  24. On Taste; On the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the French Revolution; A Letter to a Noble Lord by Edmund Burke

  25. Autobiography; Essays on Liberty by John Stuart Mill; Characteristics; Inaugural Address; Essay on Scott by Thomas Carlyle

  26. Continental Drama (Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Lessing, Schiller)

  27. English Essays (from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay)

  28. Essays (English and American)

  29. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

  30. Scientific Papers (Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology)

  31. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (translated by John Addington Symonds)

  32. Literary and Philosophical Essays (Montaigne, Sainte Beuve, Renan, etc.)

  33. Voyages and Travels (Ancient and Modern)

  34. French and English Philosophers (Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes

  35. Chronicle and Romance (Froissart, Malory, Holinshed)

  36. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli; Utopia by Sir Thomas More; Ninety-Five Theses (Address to the German Nobility Concerning Christian Liberty) by Martin Luther

  37. English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Locke, Berkeley, Hume)

  38. Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology

  39. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

  40. English Poetry: From Chaucer to Gray (Volume I)

  41. English Poetry: From Collins to Fitzgerald (Volume II)

  42. English Poetry: From Tennyson to Whitman (Volume III)

  43. American Historical Documents (1000-1904)

  44. Sacred Writings: Confucian; Hebrew; Christian, Part I (Volume I)

  45. Sacred Writings: Christian, Part II; Buddhist; Hindu; Mohammedan (Volume II)

  46. Elizabethan Drama: Marlowe and Shakespeare (Volume I)

  47. Elizabethan Drama: Dekker; Jonson; Beaumont and Fletcher; Webster; Massinger (Volume II)

  48. Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

  49. Epic and Saga: Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel; The Story of the Volsungs; Nibelungs

  50. The Editors Introduction; Reader’s Guide Index to the First Lines of Poems, Songs, and Choruses, Hymns and Psalms (General Index, Chronological Index)

  51. Lectures on The Harvard Classics by William Allan Neilson


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