Harvard's Classics Collection: Complete 71 Volumes
By Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Pare, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Charles W. Eliot, William A. Neilson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjornstjerne Bjornson & Alexander L. Kielland
- Release Date: 2019-12-18
- Genre: Literary Criticism
Harvard's Classics Collection: Complete 71 Volumes stands as a monumental anthology encompassing a vast range of influential literary works that have shaped Western thought and culture. Cueing from classical antiquity to the threshold of the modern era, this collection astutely merges genres, philosophical discourse, dramatic narratives, and lyrical poetry to sketch the evolution of human intellect and aesthetics over millennia. Its robust selection brings together the elemental compositions of ancient tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides with the enlightened prose of the Renaissance and the keen insights of the Enlightenment philosophers, displaying a deliberate assembly that highlights humanism's pervasive reach and the ongoing dialogue between the past and present intellectual epochs. The anthology benefits immensely from the illustrious backgrounds of its authors—figures who not only penned foundational texts but also actively participated in the construction of intellectual frameworks across various epochs. Bringing together dramatists, philosophers, poets, and scientists such as Shakespeare, Dante, Plato, Darwin, and Kant, the collection offers a nuanced perspective on influential historical and cultural movements, from ancient philosophies to the scientific revolutions and literary reawakenings. The diversity in authorship and thought underscores a rich tapestry of human inquiry and the collective urge towards understanding and expressing the human condition. For the discerning reader, Harvard's Classics Collection provides an unparalleled journey through the corridors of human thought and expression. Each volume serves as a gateway to the multitude of voices, styles, and themes that have defined and redefined our cultural and intellectual landscapes. This anthology not only educates but also inspires a deeper appreciation for the complexities and breadth of human achievements. It is an essential resource for scholars, educators, and anyone with a keen interest in the legacy of human thought and its relevance to contemporary discussions and understandings.
