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Vintage Books | Harvard University | Harvard Classics Five-Foot Shelf of Books | Full Set of 51 | Sterling and Burke Ltd | Vintage 1950

Vintage Books | Harvard University | Harvard Classics Five-Foot Shelf of Books | Full Set of 51 | Sterling and Burke Ltd | Vintage 1950

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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 American Historical Documents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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