The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson · Thomas Carlyle · Theodor Storm · Charles Dickens · Plato · Theodor Fontane · René Descartes · Gottfried Keller · Mark Twain · Immanuel Kant · Charles Darwin · Martin Luther · Robert Louis Stevenson · William Shakespeare · Dante Alighieri · Euripides · Percy Bysshe Shelley · Charles Lamb · Henry David Thoreau · Henry James · Samuel Johnson · John Stuart Mill · Victor Hugo · Joseph Addison · Jane Austen · John Locke · John Fletcher · Francis Beaumont · Leigh Hunt · Epictetus · Alphonse Daudet · Thomas De Quincey · Guy de Maupassant · George Eliot · Walter Scott · Laurence Sterne · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Jonathan Swift · Christopher Marlowe · Jacob Grimm · Wilhelm Grimm · William Hazlitt · Marcus Tullius Cicero · Daniel Defoe · Aesop · Richard Henry Dana · Henry Fielding · John Dryden · Philip Massinger · Pedro Calderón de la Barca · Bret Harte · George Sand · John Ruskin · Oliver Wendell Holmes · Ernest Renan · Robert Burns · David Garrick · Ralph Waldo Emerson · John Webster · Washington Irving · Izaak Walton · John Bunyan · Juan Valera · Alfred de Musset · James Russell Lowell · Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve · Nathaniel Hawthorne · Homer · Edmund Burke · Plutarch · Molière · Aeschylus · Michael Faraday · Sophocles · William Makepeace Thackeray · Benjamin Franklin · Edward Everett Hale · Pierre Corneille · Jean Racine · Voltaire · Robert Browning · Oliver Goldsmith · Thomas Dekker · John Milton · Aristophanes · Blaise Pascal · Virgil · Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 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 · Ivan Turgenev · Richard Steele · Thomas Browne · Archibald Geikie · Thomas Babington Macaulay · Leo Tolstoy · Fyodor Dostoevsky · Tacitus · William Roper · Hippocrates · Miguel de Cervantes · Thomas More · Friedrich von Schiller · Philip Nichols · Louis Pasteur · Joseph Lister · Jean Jacques Rousseau · Pliny the Younger · Charles W. Eliot · Edgar Alan Poe · Saint Augustine · Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz · Francis Drake · Edward Haies · Niccolo Machiavelli · Ambroise Paré · William A. Neilson · Honoré Balzac · Alexander L. Kielland

12.2023 г. · Good Press

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