The Harvard Classics Anthology
By Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, 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, 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, Charles Dickens, 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, Gottfried Keller, Guy de Maupassant, 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
The Harvard Classics Anthology is a textual celebration, compiling an illustrious array of impactful works that span across centuries, cultures, and continents. This collection garners a multitude of voices, from the philosophers Plato and Epictetus to literary giants such as William Shakespeare and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, enveloping readers in a tapestry of philosophical inquiry, poetic beauty, and narrative depth. Each selection within this anthology has been carefully curated to represent pivotal moments in human thought and artistic expression, allowing readers to delve into classical tragedies, enlightening essays, and groundbreaking scientific discourses that have each shaped the contours of world literature and thought. The contributing authors and editors of this anthology bring an unparalleled depth of knowledge and diverse perspectives that enrich the overarching themes of human experience and intellectual pursuit. This collection aligns with significant historical and cultural movements, offering a comprehensive understanding of the shifts in philosophical, scientific, and artistic paradigms over time. Its breadth captures the essence of human curiosity and the ceaseless quest for knowledge, tying together enduring works that span from the ancients like Homer and Virgil to modern thinkers such as Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday. Readers of The Harvard Classics Anthology are invited to explore this rich landscape of intellectual and artistic achievements. This compilation not only serves as an educational tool but also as a portal to the vast interplay of ideas and ideologies that have influenced and shaped civilization. The diversity of content and perspective makes this anthology a unique resource for scholars, students, and anyone with a thirst for knowledge and an interest in the historical lineage of cultural and scientific developments.
