Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Anthology: The Greatest Works of World Literature

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Thomas Carlyle · Plato · René Descartes · Immanuel Kant · Charles Darwin · Martin Luther · Robert Louis Stevenson · William Shakespeare · Dante Alighieri · Euripides · Percy Bysshe Shelley · Charles Lamb · Henry David Thoreau · Samuel Johnson · John Stuart Mill · David Hume · Joseph Addison · John Locke · John Fletcher · Francis Beaumont · Leigh Hunt · Epictetus · Thomas De Quincey · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Jonathan Swift · Christopher Marlowe · Jacob Grimm · Wilhelm Grimm · William Hazlitt · Marcus Tullius Cicero · Daniel Defoe · Aesop · Richard Henry Dana · John Dryden · Philip Massinger · Pedro Calderón de la Barca · John Ruskin · Oliver Wendell Holmes · Ernest Renan · Robert Burns · David Garrick · Ralph Waldo Emerson · John Webster · Izaak Walton · John Bunyan · James Russell Lowell · Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve · Homer · Edmund Burke · Plutarch · Molière · Aeschylus · Michael Faraday · Sophocles · William Makepeace Thackeray · Benjamin Franklin · Pierre Corneille · Jean Racine · Voltaire · Robert Browning · Oliver Goldsmith · Thomas Dekker · John Milton · Aristophanes · Blaise Pascal · Virgil · Simon Newcomb · William Penn · Walter Bigges · Philip Sidney · Herodotus · Walter Raleigh · Francis Bacon · Giuseppe Mazzini · Francis Pretty · George Berkeley · Thomas Hobbes · Adam Smith · Alessandro Manzoni · Abraham Cowley · Michel de Montaigne · Ben Jonson · John Woolman · Benvenuto Cellini · Sydney Smith · Jean Froissart · William Henry Harrison · William Harvey · Marcus Aurelius · Hans Christian Andersen · Thomas Malory · George Gordon Byron · Thomas à Kempis · Richard Steele · Thomas Browne · Archibald Geikie · Thomas Babington Macaulay · Tacitus · William Roper · Hippocrates · Miguel de Cervantes · Thomas More · Friedrich von Schiller · Philip Nichols · Louis Pasteur · Joseph Lister · Jean Jacques Rousseau · Pliny the Younger · Edgar Alan Poe · Saint Augustine · Brinsley Sheridan · Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz · Francis Drake · Edward Haies · Niccolo Machiavelli · Ambroise Paré · William A. Neilson

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The Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Anthology represents an unparalleled assembly of the literary genius that has shaped the western canon from antiquity through the 19th century. With a sweeping scope that encompasses philosophy, drama, poetry, science, and political thought, this collection offers a range of literary styles and themes, crafted by some of historys most influential writers. Standout pieces from the likes of William Shakespeare, Plato, and Charles Darwin, among others, illustrate the diversity within. This anthology not only showcases the development of literary form and thought but also highlights the enduring questions and challenges that continue to inspire readers today. The contributing authors and editors, from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to John Stuart Mill, embody a myriad of historical, cultural, and literary movements. Their collective work reflects the Renaissance's humanistic curiosities, the Enlightenment's reasoned debates on society and the self, and the Romantic era's introspective exploration of emotion. This collection does not merely gather texts; it weaves a rich tapestry of intellectual history and the evolution of ideas across centuries, revealing the building blocks of contemporary thought and cultural norms. The Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Anthology is recommended for anyone with a thirst for knowledge and an interest in the vast spectrum of human experience as expressed through literature. This anthology offers more than a chance to readit invites a journey through the collective human intellect, engaging with the minds that have fundamentally shaped the way we understand ourselves and our world. For scholars, students, and general enthusiasts, delving into this collection promises not only educational enrichment but also a profound exploration of the variety and depth of human thinking.