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Vintage Books | Harvard Classics Five-Foot Shelf of Books | Full Set of 50 | Sterling and Burke Ltd | Vintage 1951
The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909.
1. Franklin – Woolman – Penn
2. Plato – Epictetus – Marcus Aurelius
3. Bacon – Milton’s Prose – Thos. Browne
4. Complete Poems in English – Milton
5. Essays and English Traits – Emerson
6. Poems and Songs – Burns
7. Confessions of St. Augustine – Imitation of Christ
8. Nine Greek Dramas
9. Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny
10. Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
11. Origin of Species – Darwin
12. Plutarch’s Lives
13. Aeneid – Virgil
14. Don Quixote Part 1 – Cervantes
15. Pilgrim’s Progress – Bunyan – Herbert – Walton – Donne
16. the Thousand and One Nights
17. Folk-Lore and Fable – Aesop – Grimm – Andersen (spine Damaged/repaired)
18. Modern English Drama
19. Faust Egmont Etc. – Goethe – Doctor Faustus – Marlowe
20. the Divine Comedy – Dante
21. I Promessi Sposi – Manzoni
22. the Odyssey – Homer
23. Two Years Before the Mast – Dana
24. on the Sublime – French Revolution Etc. – Burke
25. Autobiography Etc. – J.s. Mill – Essays and Address – T. Carlyle
26. Continental Drama
27. English Essays – Sidney to Macaulay
28. Essays English and American
29. Voyage of the Beagle – Darwin
30. Faraday – Helmholtz – Kelvin – Newcomb – Etc.
31. Autobiography – Benvenuto Cellini (spine Damaged)
32. Literary and Philosophical Essays – Montaigne – Sainte-Beuve – Renan – Etc.
33. Voyages and Travels
34 . French and English Philosophers – Descartes – Voltaire – Rousseau – Hobbes
35. Chronicle and Romance – Froissart- Malory – Holinshed
36. Machiavelli – More – Luther
37. Locke – Berkeley – Hume
38. Harvey – Kenner – Lister – Pasteur
39. Famous Prefaces
40. English Poetry 1 Chaucer to Gray
41. English Poetry 2 Collins to Fitzgerald
42. English Poetry 3 Tennyson to Whitman
43 . American Historical Documents
44. Sacred Writings 1
45. Sacred Writings 2
46. Elizabethan Drama 1
47. Elizabethan Drama 2
48. Thoughts and Minor Works – Pascal
49. Epic and Saga
50. Introduction – Reader’s Guide – Indexes
51. Lectures
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