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 American Historical Documents 44.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