Research Catalog

Title

The Harvard classics / edited by Charles W. Eliot.

Publication

New York : P.F. Collier & Son, [©1909-10]

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Details

Additional Authors

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

Description

50 volumes : illustrations; 20 cm

Summary

• Fifteen minutes a day; the reading guide. New York, Collier [1956, c1938] 95 p.: illus.; 23 cm.
• V. 30--Scientific papers: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology.
• V. 31--The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.
• V. 32--Literary and phylosophical essays, French, German, Italy.
• V. 33--Voyages and travels, ancient and modern.
• V. 34--French and English philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes.
• V. 35--Chronicle and romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed.
• V. 36--The prince, by N. Machiavelli. Utopia, by T. More. Ninety-four theses, Address to the German nobility, and Concerning Christian liberty; by M. Luther.
• V. 37--English philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
• V. 38--Scientific papers: physiology, medicine, surgery, geology.
• V. 39--Prefaces and prologues to famous books.
• V. 43--American historical drama.
• V. 48--Thoughts, Letters, and Minor works; by B. Pascal.
• V. 49--Epic and saga.
• V. 50--The Harvard classics. (Indexes).
• V. 51--Lectures on The Harvard classics, edited by W.A. Neilson.

Series Statement

Harvard classics

Uniform Title

Harvard classics

Subject

• Literature > Collections
• anthologies
• Literature
• Obras Gerais

Genre/Form

• Literature
• Collections
• Literature.
• Littérature.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Contents

• v.1. The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The journal of John Woolman; Fruits of solitude [by] William Penn ... -- v.2. Plato. The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito; The golden sayings of Epictetus; The meditations of Marcus Aurelius -- v.3. Bacon, Francis, viscount St. Albans. Essays, civil and moral, and The new Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on education, by John Milton; Religio medici, by Sir Thomas Browne -- v.4. Milton, John. The complete poems -- v.5. Emerson, Ralph W. Essays and English traits -- v.6. Burns, Robert. The poems and songs -- v.7. Augustinus Aurelius, Saint, bp. of Hippo. The confessions.; The imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, tr. by W. Benham -- v. 8. Nine Greek dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes -- v.9. Cicero, M. Tullius. Letters, with his treaties of friendship and old age, and Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus -- v.10. Smith, Adam. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations -- v.11. Darwin, Charles R. The origin of species.
• v. 12. Plutarchus. Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Caesar and Anthony -- v. 13. Vergilius Maro, Publius. Virgil's Aeneid -- v. 14. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de -- v. 15. Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's progress; The lives of John Donne and George Herbert, by Izaak Walton --v.16. Arabian nights. Stories from the Thousand and one nights -- v. 17. Folk-lore and fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen -- v. 18. Modern English drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron --v.19. Goethe, Johann W. von. Faust, part I, Egmont, Hermann and Dorothea; Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus -- v. 20. Dante Alighieri. The Divine comedy; Hell, Purgatory, Paradise -- v. 21. Manzoni, Alessandro. I promessi sposi (The betrothed) -- v. 22. Homerus. The Odyssey -- v. 23. Dana, Richard H. Two years before the mast and Twenty-four years after -- v. 24. Burke, Edmund. On taste, On the sublime and beautiful, Reflections on the French revolution, A letter to a noble lord.
• v.25. Mill, John S. Autobiography, Essay on liberty; Thomas Carlyle: Characteristics, Inaugural addresses, Essay on Scott -- v.26. Continental drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Lessing, Schiller -- v.27. English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay ... [c1910] -- v.28. Essays, English and American -- v.29. Darwin, Charles R. The voyage of the Beagle -- v.30. Scientific papers: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology -- v.31. The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini -- v.32. Literary and philosophical essays, French, German and Italian -- v.33. Voyages and travels; ancient and modern -- v.34. French and English philosophers Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes --v.35. Chronicle and romance Froissart, Malory, Holinshed -- v.36. Machiavelli, Niccolo. The prince; Utopia, by Sir Thomas More; Ninety-five theses, Address to the German nobility, Concerning Christian liberty, by Martin Luther -- v.37. English philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Locke, Berkeley, Hume -- v.38. Scientific papers: physiology, medicine, surgery, geology -- v.39. Prefaces and prologues to famous books -- v.40-42. English poetry -- v.43. American historical documents, 1000-1904 -- v.44-45. Sacred writings -- v.46-47. Elizabethan drama.
• v.48. Pascal, Blaise. Thoughts; Letters; minor works -- v.49. Epic and saga: Beowulf; the song of Roland; The destruction of Dá Derga's hostel; The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs -- v.50. The Harvard classics. The editor's introduction; reader's guide; index to the first lines of poems, songs & choruses, hymns & psalms; general index; chronological index.

LCCN

16002641

OCLC

• ocm00365184
• 365184
• SCSB-581927

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library