Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes: Exploring Literary and Philosophical Masterpieces from Harvard Classics Anthology
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson · Thomas Carlyle · Theodor Storm · 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 · David Hume · 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 · 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
Dec 2023 · Good Press
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The 'Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes' collection represents the pinnacle of literary anthologies, traversing the broad and rich landscape of human thought and creativity. Spanning various genres and styles, the compilation captures the profound diversities of intellectual discourse and artistic expression from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Among its highlights, readers will encounter philosophical treatises alongside poignant narratives, as timeless lyricism intermingles with scientific treatises. These curated works collectively articulate the enduring and complex tapestry of human experience, offering a glimpse into the literary art and thought leadership that have shaped civilizations. Curated by scholar Charles W. Eliot, this anthology brings together the eloquent voices of epoch-defining minds such as Goethe, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, along with scientists like Darwin and philosophers including Kant and Rousseau. The authors hail from a multitude of historical and cultural milieux; their works participating in an intellectual dialogue that delves into existential queries, societal norms, and poetic beauty. The diversity of authors in the Harvard Classics enhances its educational value, creating a confluence of ideas that mirror the intricate progressions of literary and historical paradigms throughout time. This monumental collection invites readers to navigate a variegated sea of masterful prose and profound philosophical inquiry. With perspectives ranging from the ancients like Plato to the modern wisdom of Twain, 'Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes' offers an unparalleled opportunity for both scholars and laymen to immerse themselves in the profound dialogues of the past. It is a definitive route to expanding one'Äôs intellectual horizons, fostering a dynamic exchange between some of history'Äôs most influential thinkers, and rendering a touchstone for those aspiring to comprehend the depth and breadth of human achievement through literature and thought.
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