Harvard Classics - Complete Collection of the Greatest Works of World Literature

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Thomas Carlyle · Plato · Charles Darwin · Dante Alighieri · Euripides · Percy Bysshe Shelley · Charles Lamb · Samuel Johnson · John Stuart Mill · David Hume · Joseph Addison · 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 · Pedro Calderón de la Barca · John Ruskin · Robert Burns · David Garrick · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Izaak Walton · John Bunyan · Homer · Edmund Burke · Plutarch · Molière · Aeschylus · Sophocles · William Makepeace Thackeray · Benjamin Franklin · Pierre Corneille · Jean Racine · Robert Browning · Oliver Goldsmith · John Milton · Aristophanes · Virgil · Richard Brinsley Sheridan · William Penn · Philip Sidney · Francis Bacon · Adam Smith · Alessandro Manzoni · Abraham Cowley · Ben Jonson · John Woolman · Sydney Smith · Marcus Aurelius · Hans Christian Andersen · George Gordon Byron · Thomas à Kempis · Richard Steele · Thomas Browne · Thomas Babington Macaulay · Miguel de Cervantes · Friedrich von Schiller · Pliny the Younger · Saint Augustine

Νοε 2022 · DigiCat

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