The Harvard Classics
VOL. I.
His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin
Journal, by John Woolman
Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
II.
The Apology, Phædo and Crito of Plato
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
III.
Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
Areopagitica & Tractate on Education, by John Milton
Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne
IV.
Complete Poems Written in English, by John Milton
V.
Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
VI.
Poems and Songs, by Robert Burns
VII.
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis
VIII.
Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, The Furies & Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
Oedipus the King & Antigone of Sophocles
Hippolytus & The Bacchæ of Euripides
The Frogs of Aristophanes
IX.
On Friendship, On Old Age & Letters, by Cicero
Letters, by Pliny the Younger
X.
Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
XI.
The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
XII.
Lives, by Plutarch
XIII.
Æneid, by Vergil
XIV.
Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes
XV.
The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan
The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton
XVI.
Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
XVII.
Fables, by Æsop Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen
XVIII.
All for Love, by John Dryden
The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith
The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Blot in the ’Scutcheon, by Robert Browning
Manfred, by Lord Byron
XIX.
Faust, Part I, Egmont & Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe
Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
XX.
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
XXI.
I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni
XXII.
The Odyssey of Homer
XXIII.
Two Years before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
XXIV.
On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke
XXV.
Autobiography & On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle
XXVI.
Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille
Phædra, by Jean Racine
Tartuffe, by Molière
Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller
XXVII.
English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
XXVIII.
Essays: English and American
XXIX.
The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
XXX.
Scientific Papers
XXXI.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
XXXII.
Literary and Philosophical Essays
XXXIII.
Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern
XXXIV.
Discourse on Method, by René Descartes
Letters on the English, by Voltaire
On the Inequality among Mankind & Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
XXXV.
The Chronicles of Jean Froissart
The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory
A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison
XXXVI.
The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
The Ninety-Five Thesis, Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther
XXXVII.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume
XXXVIII.
The Oath of Hippocrates
Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey
The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner
The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister
Scientific Papers, by Louis Pasteur Scientific Papers, by Charles Lyell
XXXIX.
Prefaces and Prologues
XL.
English Poetry I: Chaucer to Gray
XLI.
English Poetry II: Collins to Fitzgerald
XLII.
English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman
XLIII.
American Historical Documents: 1000–1904
XLIV.
Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius
Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes
Christian I: Luke & Acts
XLV.
Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns
Buddhist: Writings
Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita
Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran
XLVI.
Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
XLVII.
The Shoemaker’s Holiday, by Thomas Dekker
The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher
The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster
A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger
XLVIII.
Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal
XLIX.
Epic & Saga: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel & The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
LI.
Lectures on the Harvard Classics
Where the "Red Fern Grows" was the book I read 6 times in the 5th grade. Each subsequent reading I knew the scene was coming where the dog was going to be attacked by the mountain lion and still I sobbed each time. I have gone on to continue reading these past 47 years. For what purpose did your teacher read?
ReplyDeleteLOL. I have no clue what drives a teacher like that, but I'm sure such teachers are the reason that the most famous lament of those who hate certain classics is, "I had to read it for a class!" It sounds like you had the same experience I did as a child. Falling in love with a book may not be the only way to become an avid reader, but it is certainly the best way.
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