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The Five-Foot Shelf, with its introductions, notes, guides to reading, and exhaustive indexes, may claim to constitute a reading course unparalleled in comprehensiveness and authority. |
—Notes on the Lectures |
William Allan Neilson |
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The Harvard Classics |
The Shelf of Fiction |
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Selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD |
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The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century. |
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CONTENTS |
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NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON, 1909–1917 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001 |
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The Harvard Classics |
VOL. I. | His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin Journal, by John Woolman Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn |
II. | The Apology, Phædo and Crito of Plato The Golden Sayings of Epictetus The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
III. | Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon Areopagitica & Tractate on Education, by John Milton Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne |
IV. | Complete Poems Written in English, by John Milton |
V. | Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
VI. | Poems and Songs, by Robert Burns |
VII. | The Confessions of Saint Augustine The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis |
VIII. | Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, The Furies & Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus Oedipus the King & Antigone of Sophocles Hippolytus & The Bacchæ of Euripides The Frogs of Aristophanes |
IX. | On Friendship, On Old Age & Letters, by Cicero Letters, by Pliny the Younger |
X. | Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith |
XI. | The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin |
XII. | Lives, by Plutarch |
XIII. | Æneid, by Vergil |
XIV. | Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes |
XV. | The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton |
XVI. | Stories from the Thousand and One Nights |
XVII. | Fables, by Æsop Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen |
XVIII. | All for Love, by John Dryden The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley A Blot in the ’Scutcheon, by Robert Browning Manfred, by Lord Byron |
XIX. | Faust, Part I, Egmont & Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe |
XX. | The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri |
XXI. | I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni |
XXII. | The Odyssey of Homer |
XXIII. | Two Years before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
XXIV. | On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke |
XXV. | Autobiography & On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle |
XXVI. | Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille Phædra, by Jean Racine Tartuffe, by Molière Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller |
XXVII. | English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay |
XXVIII. | Essays: English and American |
XXIX. | The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin |
XXX. | Scientific Papers |
XXXI. | The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini |
XXXII. | Literary and Philosophical Essays |
XXXIII. | Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern |
XXXIV. | Discourse on Method, by René Descartes Letters on the English, by Voltaire On the Inequality among Mankind & Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes |
XXXV. | The Chronicles of Jean Froissart The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison |
XXXVI. | The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper Utopia, by Sir Thomas More The Ninety-Five Thesis, Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther |
XXXVII. | Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume |
XXXVIII. | The Oath of Hippocrates Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister Scientific Papers, by Louis Pasteur Scientific Papers, by Charles Lyell |
XXXIX. | Prefaces and Prologues |
XL. | English Poetry I: Chaucer to Gray |
XLI. | English Poetry II: Collins to Fitzgerald |
XLII. | English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman |
XLIII. | American Historical Documents: 1000–1904 |
XLIV. | Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes Christian I: Luke & Acts |
XLV. | Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns Buddhist: Writings Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran |
XLVI. | Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest, by William Shakespeare |
XLVII. | The Shoemaker’s Holiday, by Thomas Dekker The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger |
XLVIII. | Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal |
XLIX. | Epic & Saga: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel & The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs |
LI. | Lectures on the Harvard Classics |
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