Charles W Eliot, ed.
Harvard Classics [1910; 1917]
246 entries: 135 monographical, 111 otherwise
Unrankedarranged topically
Charles W. Eliot's Harvard Classics: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books is one of the two popular sets of "great books" that left an indelible mark on U. S. culture in the Twentieth Century, alongside the Great Books of the Western World, a project that aimed to surpass Eliot's series. At various spots online, not least the My Harvard Classics site, one can download full-text scans of the original 51-volume set published in 1909; some of those sites also have the accompanying 20-volume Shelf of Fiction published in 1917. The listing below follows the order of the set, with those fictional works last.
- Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin_7
French translation published 1791 as Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin; first-third parts of the original English published 1818 as volume one of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin; original English published in its entirety, 1868English
*Eliot* *Hundred* *Downs* *Zulli* *Magill* *Smart* *Educated*
- John Woolman
The Journal of John Woolman_3
1774English
*Eliot* *Rexroth* *Trinity*
William Penn
- Some Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Related to the Conduct of Human Life. Part 1_1
1693English
*Eliot*
- More Fruits of Solitude, Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims, Relating to the Conduct of Human Life_1
1702English
*Eliot*
Plato
- Apologia Socratis_16
The Apology
early Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear*
- Crito_13
early Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
- Phaedo_14
early Fourth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Durant* *Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *O'Hear*
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus_1
1903; excerpts from The Discourses; English translations by Hastings Crossley; Second CenturyGreek
*Eliot*
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton_17
Meditations
written 161-80Greek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Utne* *Great*
George Long
English
*Eliot*
- 'The Philosophy of Antoninus'_1
English
*Eliot*
Francis Bacon
- Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed_12
1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Good* *Bloom* *Great*
- Nova Atlantis_5
1624English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Magill* *Adler*
John Milton
- Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England_12
1644English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- On Education_2
originally anonymously published 1644English
*Eliot* *Classics*
- Thomas Browne
Religio Medici_5
1643English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Clasics* *Bloom*
John Milton
- The Complete Poems of John Milton_1
1910; volume 4 of the Harvard Classics; includes Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes; Seventeenth CenturyEnglish
*Eliot*
- Paradise Lost_27
1667; revised 1674English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Invitation* *Classics* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes_8
1671English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Zulli* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Essays and English Traits_1
1910; volume 5 of the Harvard Classics; includes An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge [1837; later retitled The American Scholar]; English Traits [1856]; and selections from Essays: First Series [1841] and Essays: Second Series [1844]English
*Eliot*
- The American Scholar_5
originally entitled, An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, published 1837English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Fadiman* *Newman*
- English Traits_2
1856English
*Eliot* *Fadiman*
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns_1
1910; volume 6 of the Harvard ClassicsEnglish
*Eliot*
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim_23
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Educated*
- Thomas á Kempis
De Imitatione Christi_4
The Imitation of Christ
written ca. 1418-27Latin
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Trinity* *Great*
Aeschylus
- Oresteia_19
The House of Atreus
458 B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Zane* *Newman*
- Promētheus Desmōtēs_12
Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
Sophocles
- Oidipous Tyrannos_25
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *World* *Newman* *Educated*
- Antigone_22
ca. 441 B.CGreek
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *World* *Newman*
Euripides
- Hippolytos _11
428 B.CGreek
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- Bakchai _14
The Bacchae
405 B.CGreek
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *O'Hear*
- Aristophanes
Bátrachoi_10
The Frogs
405 B.CGreek
*Classics* *Eliot* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*
Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Laelius de Amicitia_5
written 44 B.CLatin
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Read*
- Cato Major de Senectute_6
written 44 B.CLatin
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Ward*
First Century B CLatin
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs*
Epistulae [selections]_1
First CenturyLatin
*Eliot*
- Adam Smith
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations_15
1776; revised through third edition, 1784English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor*
- Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life_23
1859English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Reynolds* *Deposit* *Graphic* *Educated*
Bìoi Paràllēloi [excerpted]_1
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
'Themistocles'; 'Pericles'; 'Aristides'; 'Alcibiades'; 'Coriolanus'; 'Demosthenes'; 'Cicero'; 'Caesar'; 'Antony'; First CenturyGreek
*Eliot*
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid_26
First Century B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Dudley Fitts and Robert Fagles's English translationLatin
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Smart* *Zane* *Reynolds* *World* *Graphic* *Newman*
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha [first volume]_1
Don Quixote
1605; second volume published 1615Spanish
*Eliot*
- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come_18
1678English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
Izaak Walton
- 'The Life of Dr. John Donne'_2
part of Walton's LivesEnglish
*Eliot* *Classics*
- 'The Life of Mr. George Herbert'_1
part of Walton's LivesEnglish
*Eliot*
--
- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah_17
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuries; Taylor specifies Richard Burton's versionArabic
*Lubock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *France* *Downs* *Ward* *Magill* *Oriental* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Great* *Zane* *Taylor*
Fables [excerpted]_1
ca. late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B CGreek
*Eliot*
Selected stories_1
Nineteenth CenturyGerman
*Eliot*
Hans Christian Andersen
among its selections, the Harvard Classics volume includes the 1838 noted below in its entirety; Nineteenth CenturyDanish
*Eliot*
- Eventyr, Fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Første Hefte_1
Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. First Booklet
1838; part of the author's collected fablesDanish
*Eliot*
- John Dryden
All for Love; or, The World Well Lost_3
1677English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Newman*
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
School for Scandal_6
1777English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Ward* *Bloom* *Smart* *Educated*
- Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer_6
1773English
*Eliot* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Educated*
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cenci_1
1819English
*Eliot*
- Robert Browning
Bells and Pomegrantes No. IV: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon 1
1843English
*Eliot*
- Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
Manfred_3
1817English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Recommended*
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil_3
first of two volumes of Faust; published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second volume, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832
*Eliot* *Foundation* *Deposit*
- Egmont_3
1788German
*Eliot* *Ward* *Bloom*
- Hermann und Dorothea_2
1798German
*Eliot* *Bloom*
- Christopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus_10
1592English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Newman* *Educated*
- Dante
La Divina Commedia_33
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Downs* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi Sposi_4
The Betrothed
1827Italian
*Eliot* *Ward* *Bloom* *Trinity*
- Homer
Odýsseia_36
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B.C; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Robert Fitzgerald's English translationGreek
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years Before the Mast_3
1840; revised and expanded 1869English
*Eliot* *Bloom* *Recommended*
Edmund Burke
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful_3
1757English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Bloom*
- Reflections on the Revolution in France_9
1790English
*Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Downs* *Ward* *Bloom* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Great*
- A Letter From the Right Hon. Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord_1
1796English
*Eliot*
John Stuart Mill
- Autobiography_7
1873English
*Eliot* *Invitation* *Hundred* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom*
- On Liberty_16
1859English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *Taylor* *World*
Thomas Carlyle
originally published Dec. 1831 in the Edinburgh Review; included in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1838English
*Eliot*
- Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, April 2nd, 1866_1
1866English
*Eliot*
- 'Memories of the Life of Scott'_1
originally published Jan. 1838 in London and Westminster Review; included in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1838English
*Eliot*
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
La Vida es Sueño_8
Life Is a Dream
1635Spanish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Great*
- Pierre Corneille
Polyeucte_5
1643French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Jean Racine
Phèdre_11
1677French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Read* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *O'Hear* *Newman*
- Molière
Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur_15
1664French
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Great* *Newman* *Educated*
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Minna von Barnhelm Oder das Soldatenglück_2
1767German
*Eliot* *Classics*
- Friedrich Schiller
Wilhelm Tell_4
1804German
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Trinity*
- Philip Sidney
Defence of Poesie_3
1595English
*Eliot* *Bloom* *Newman*
Explorata, Timber or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter [excerpted]_1
'On Shakespeare'; 'On Bacon'; complete work published 1641English
*Eliot*
'Of Agriculture'_1
English
*Eliot*
Joseh Addison
English
*Eliot*
English
*Eliot*
'Of the Club'_1
'The Spectator Club'
originally published Mar. 1711 in the SpectatorEnglish
*Eliot*
Jonathan Swift
- 'Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation'_1
English
*Eliot*
- 'A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding'_1
English
*Eliot*
- A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet: Together With a Proposal for the Encouragement of Poetry in This Kingdom_1
1721English
*Eliot*
- Journal to Stella [excerpted]_1
'On the Death of Esther Johnson'English
*Eliot*
Daniel Defoe
- The Shortest-Way With the Dissenters: Or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church_1
1702English
*Eliot*
- 'The Education of Women'_1
English
*Eliot*
'Life of Addison, 1672-1719'_1
English
*Eliot*
'Of the Standard of Taste'_1
English
*Eliot*
'Fallacies of Anti-Reformers'_1
English
*Eliot*
'On Poesy or Art'_1
edited 1818 lecture; originally published 1836 in Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEnglish
*Eliot*
'Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen'_1
originally published 1836 in Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt; also included in Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There, 1839English
*Eliot*
Leigh Hunt
- 'Deaths of Little Children'_1
originally published in the IndicatorEnglish
*Eliot*
- 'On the Realities of Imagination'_1
English
*Eliot*
'On the Tragedies of Shakespeare'_1
originally published 1811 in the ReflectorEnglish
*Eliot*
'Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow'_1
originally published Jun. 1845 in Blackwood's; part of Suspiria de ProfundisEnglish
*Eliot*
'A Defence of Poetry'_2
written 1821; originally published 1840 in Essays, Letters From Abroad, Translations and FragmentsEnglish
*Eliot* *Bloom*
- Thomas Macaulay (Lord Macaulay)
'Machiavelli'_1
originally published 1827 in the Edinburgh ReviewEnglish
*Eliot*
- William Makepeace Thackeray
'Jonathan Swift'_1
English
*Eliot*
- John Henry Newman
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated_3
1873; originally published in two parts: The Scope and Nature of University Educationoriginally published 1852, with two alternate titles: Discourses on University Education, and Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education, then retitled and revised in 1859; and Lectures and Essays on University Subjects, 1859English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Bloom*
'The Study of Poetry'_1
introduction to The English PoetsEnglish
*Eliot*
- John Ruskin
Sesame and Lilies_1
two edited 1864 lectures, 'Of Kings' Treasures' and 'Of Queens' Gardens'; published 1865; second edition that year includes preface; revised, with new preface and essay 'The Mystery of Life and Its Art', 1871; 'Mystery' essay removed and another new preface added for 1882 editionEnglish
*Eliot*
'John Milton'_1
originally published Jul. 1859 in the National ReviewLatin
*Eliot*
'Science and Culture'_1
edited lecture, 1 Oct. 1880; included in Science and Culture: Collected Essays, 1881English
*Eliot*
'Race and Language'_1
originally published Feb. 1877 in the Contemporary Review, Feb. 1877; revised version, in Historical Essays, Third Series [1879], includes portions of 'The Geographical Aspect of the Eastern Question', originally published Jan. 1877 in the Fortnightly ReviewEnglish
*Eliot*
Robert Louis Stevenson
originally published May 1879 in Cornhill Magazine; included in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, 1881 as the fourth of four essays collectively entitled 'Virginibus Puerisque'English
*Eliot*
originally published Jul. 1881 in Cornhill Magazine; included in Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 1882English
*Eliot*
'On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes'_1
1840English
*Eliot*
'The Poetic Principle'_1
originally published Aug. 1850 in the Home Journal and Oct. 1850 in the Union Magazine of Literature and ArtEnglish
*Eliot*
Excursions [excerpted]_1
'Walking'; complete work published 1863English
*Eliot*
'The President's Policy'_1
originally anonymously published Jan. 1864 in the North American Review; included in Political Essays, 1888English
*Eliot*
- On Democracy_1
1884; edited lectureEnglish
*Eliot*
- Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle_4
originally published 1838 as Journal and Remarks, 1832-1835, volume three of Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Eagle; also published that year as Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H M S Beagle; revised 1845English
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Classics* *Fadiman*
Michael Faraday
- A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter and Their Relations to Each Other_1
edited 1859 lectures; originally published in the Chemical News, 1860; book version published the same yearEnglish
*Eliot*
- The Chemical History of a Candle_2
edited 1848 lectures; originally published 1861 in the Chemical News; book version, entitled A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To Which Is Added a Lecture on Platinum (that lecture having been published in the Chemical News as 'On Platinum' the same year) also published 1861; 'On Platinum' removed for some later editionsEnglish
*Eliot* *Read*
Hermann von Helmholtz
- 'On the Conservation of Force'_1
English
*Eliot*
English
*Eliot*
William Thomson
- 'The Wave Theory of Light'_1
English
*Eliot*
English
*Eliot*
- Simon Newcomb
The Extent of the Universe_1
1884English
*Eliot*
'Geographical Evolution'_1
lecture delivered 24 Mar. 1879; included in Geographical Sketches at Home and AbroadEnglish
*Eliot*
- Benvenuto Cellini
Vita di Benvenuto di Maestro Giovanni Cellini Fiorentino, Scritta, per Lui Medesimo, in Firenze_7
Autobiography
written 1558-62Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
included in Causeries du LundiFrench
*Eliot*
1850; included in Causeries du LundiFrench
*Eliot*
'La Poèsie des Races Celtiques'_1
included in Essais de Morale et de Critique, 1859French
*Eliot*
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts_2
1780German
*Eliot* *Classics*
- Friedrich Schiller
Über die Äthetische Erziehung des Menschen in Einer Reihe von Briefen_2
1794German
*Eliot* *Classics*
- Immanuel Kant
Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten_4
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics
1785; revised 1786German
*Eliot* *Read* *Adler* *Great*
'Byron and Goethe'_1
originally published 1839 in Monthly Chronicle
*Eliot*
Historiē [excerpted]_1
History
'An Account of Egypt'; Fifth Century B CGreek
*Eliot*
De Origine et Situ Germanorum [excerpted]_1
Germania
unspecified selection; written ca. 98Latin
*Eliot*
Sir Francis Drake Revived_1
English
*Eliot*
Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World_1
English
*Eliot*
Drake's Great Armada_1
English
*Eliot*
- Edward Hayes
A Narrative of the Expedition of Sir Humfrey Gylberte in 1583 for the Planting of a Colony in America, as Given by Captain Edward Haies, a Distinguished Member of the Expedition_1
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
English
*Eliot*
- Walter Raleigh
The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana_1
The Discovery of Guiana
1596English
*Eliot*
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences_17
Discourse on the Method
1637French
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *France* *Downs* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *World*
- Voltaire
Lettres Philosophiques_5
Letters Concerning the English Nation
English translation, 1733; French original, 1734; revised 1778English
*Eliot* *Read* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Newman*
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes_7
Discourse on Inequality
1755French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Adler* *Trinity* *Dirda*
- Émile, ou de l'Éducation [excerpted]_1
'Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar'; complete work published 1762French
*Eliot*
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil [excerpted]_1
'Of Man'; complete published 1651English
*Eliot*
- Jean Froissart
Chroniques_3
written 1369-1400French
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Bloom*
Le Morte d'Arthur [excerpted]_1
'The Holy Grail'; complete work published 1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634English
*Eliot*
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- Holinsheds Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland [excerpted]_1
'A Description of Elizabethan England Written by William Harrison'; complete work originally published in two volumes, 1577; revised 1587English
*Eliot*
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe_29
The Prince
1532Italian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *Kanigel* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *World* *Deposit* *Educated*
- William Roper
The Life of Sir Thomas More_2
1626English
*Eliot* *Rexroth*
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia_14
Utopia
1516Latin
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Dirda* *Great* *Educated*
Martin Luther
- Disputatio pro Declaratione Virtutis Indulgentiarum_2
The Ninety-Five Theses; Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
1517Latin
*Eliot* *Classics*
- An den Christlichen Adel Deutscher Nation_5
Address to the Christian Nobility
1520German
*Eliot* *Classics* *Downs* *Read* *World*
- Von der Freiheit Eines Christenmenschen_4
The Freedom of a Christian; A Treatise on Christian Liberty
1520German
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *World*
- John Locke
Some Thoughts Concerning Education_3
1693English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read*
- George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists_2
1713English
*Eliot* *Classics*
- David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding_10
1748English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Fadiman* *Great* *GlobeMail* *World*
Hippocratic Corpus [excerpted]_1
The Oath of Hippocrates; The Law of Hippocrates; late Fifth-early Fourth centuries B.CGreek
*Eliot*
- Ambroise Paré
The Apologie and Treatise Containing the Voyages Made to Divers Places_1
Latin
*Eliot*
- William Harvey
Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus_6
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
1628Latin
*Eliot* *Downs* *Read* *Adler* *Great* *Taylor*
Edward Jenner
- An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae_2
1798English
*Eliot* *Downs*
- Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox_1
1799English
*Eliot*
- A Continuation of Facts and Observations relative to the Variolae Vaccinae_1
1800English
*Eliot*
'The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever'_1
originally published 1843 in the New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine; included in Medical Essays, 1855English
*Eliot*
- Joseph Lister (Lord Lister)
'On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery'_2
edited lecture, 9 Aug. 1867; published Sep. 1867 in LancetEnglish
*Eliot* *Downs*
Louis Pasteur
- The Physiological Theory of Fermentation_1
1879French
*Eliot*
- 'The Germ Theory and Its Application to Medicine and Surgery'_1
edited lecture, 29 Apr.1878; published in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des SciencesFrench
*Eliot*
- 'On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases'_1
edited lecture, 3 May 1880; published in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des SciencesFrench
*Eliot*
Principles of Geology [excerpted]_1
'Prejudices Which Have Retarded the Progress of Geology'; 'Uniformity in the Series of Past Changes in the Animate and Inanimate World'English
*Eliot*
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- Famous Prefaces (Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books)_1
Volume 39 of Harvard ClassicsEnglish
*Eliot*
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- English Poetry From Chaucer to Grey_1
Volume 40 of Harvard ClassicsEnglish
*Eliot*
--
- English Poetry From Collins to Fitzgerald_1
Volume 41 of Harvard ClassicsEnglish
*Eliot*
--
- English Poetry From Tennyson to Whitman_1
Volume 42 of Harvard ClassicsEnglish
*Eliot*
--
- American Historical Documents From 1000 to 1904_1
Volume 43 of Harvard ClassicsEnglish
*Eliot*
Confucius (Kǒng Zǐ) (Kǒng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)
Analects_12
Lún Yǔ
written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B.C-Second Century—Chinese
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Downs* *Ward* *Oriental* *Good* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Great* *Taylor* *World* *Graphic*
--
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Foundation* *Norway* *Great*
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Educated*
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Foundation* *Kanigel*
- The Gospel According to Luke_3
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
- First Epistle to the Corinthians_3
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
- Second Epistle to the Corinthians_3
part of the BibleHebrew; Aramaic; Greek
*Eliot* *Durant* *Great*
--
- "Hymns of the Christian Church"_1
*Eliot*
--
English translations by Henry Clarke Warren
*Eliot*
Bhagavad Gita_8
part of the Mahabharata; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth CenturySanskrit
*Eliot* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Oriental* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Great* *Zane*
--
- Quran (Koran) [excerpted]_2
Lubbock does not specify his selections; Eliot's Harvard Classics presents a selection edited and translated by E H Palmer; Seventh CenturyArabic
*Lubbock* *Eliot*
- Christopher Marlowe
Edward II_5
1593English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Dirda* *Newman*
William Shakespeare
- Hamlet_27
1602English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Downs* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *Harvard* *World* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- King Lear_21
1606English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *World* *Newman* *Graphic*
- Macbeth_16
ca. 1607English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Campbell* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- The Tempest_20
1611English
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Foundation* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Great* *O'Hear* *Zane* *Taylor* *World* *Newman*
- Thomas Dekker
The Shoemaker's Holiday_1
1599English
*Eliot*
- Ben Jonson
The Alchemist_8
1610English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *List* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
- John Fletcher; Francis Beaumont
Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding_1
1610English
*Eliot*
- John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi_4
ca. 1613-14English
*Eliot* *Rexroth* *Bloom* *Dirda*
- Philip Massinger
A New Way to Pay Old Debts_2
1626English
*Eliot* *Bloom*
Blaise Pascal
- Pensées_20
Thoughts
1669French
*Lubbock* *Eliot* *Invitation* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *List* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Adler* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *SeymourSmith* *Trinity* *Great* *O'Hear* *Reynolds*
Seventeenth CenturyFrench
*Eliot*
Seventeenth CenturyFrench
*Eliot*
--
- Beowulf_14
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuriesEnglish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Dirda* *Great* *Smart* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
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- La Chanson de Roland_9
ca. Eleventh CenturyFrench
*Eliot* *Classics* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Newman*
--
- Togail Bruidne Dá Derga_1
The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel
part of the Ulster CycleIrish
*Eliot*
--
- Nibelungenlied_8
ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuriesGerman
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Read* *Magill* *Bloom* *Trinity* *Great*
--
- Volsunga Saga_2
ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse
*Eliot* *Classics*
- Certain Songs From the Elder Saga_1
selections; Thirteenth Century—Norse
*Eliot*
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling_19
1749English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Invitation* *Classics* *Hundred* *Rexroth* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Zane* *Smart* *Newman*
- Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy_6
1768English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Read* *Ward* *Bloom* *Newman*
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice_30
originally anonymously published 1813English
*Eliot* *Powys* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Taylor* *Telegraph* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *World* *Deposit* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Walter Scott
Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer_3
originally anonymously published 1815English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Powys*
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero_18
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Zulli* *Ward* *Magill* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- Charles Dickens
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)_15
originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850English
*Lubbock* *Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Magill* *Read* *Good* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Guardian* *Zane* *Telegraph* *Newman*
- George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss _6
1860English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Newman*
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Letter_21
1850English
*Baldwin* *Eliot* *Classics* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Good* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Campbell* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- 'Rappaccini's Daughter'_2
included in Mosses From an Old Manse, 1846EnglishEnglish
*Eliot* *Fadiman*
Washington Irving
- 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'_4
part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848
*Eliot* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848
*Eliot* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
Edgar Allan Poe
originally published 1842 in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, May 1845English
*Eliot*
originally published 1844 in the The Gift for 1845; included in Tales, 1845English
*Eliot* *Recommended* *Fadiman*
- 'The Fall of the House of Usher'_5
originally published Sep. 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine; revised for inclusion in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840English
*Eliot* *Ward* *Magill* *Recommended* *Newman*
Bret Harte
- 'The Luck of Roaring Camp'_2
originally published Aug. 1868 in Overland MonthlyEnglish
*Eliot* *Recommended*
- 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat'_2
originally published Jan. 1869 in Overland MonthlyEnglish
*Eliot* *Recommended*
- 'The Idyl of Red Gulch'_1
originally published Dec. 1869 in Overland MonthlyEnglish
*Eliot*
'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'_3
originally entitled 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog', published Nov. 1865 in the Saturday Press; retitled and revised for inclusion in the Californian, Dec. 1865English
*Eliot* *Classics* *Recommended*
'The Man Without a Country'_1
English
*Eliot*
- Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady_14
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic MonthlyEnglish
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Fadiman* *Kanigel* *Trinity* *Zane* *GlobeMail* *Telegraph* *Newman* *Educated*
- Victor Hugo
Notre-Dame de Paris_8
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831French
*Eliot* *Classics* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Newman*
- Honoré de Balzac
Le Père Goriot_14
Father Goriot
originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de ParisFrench
*Eliot* *Powys* *Durant* *Hundred* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Norway* *Newman*
- George Sand
La Mare au Diable_2
1846French
*Eliot* *Bloom*
- Alfred de Musset
Histoire d'un Merle Blanc_1
1842French
*Eliot*
Alphonse Daudet
- 'Contes du Lundi: Le Siège de Berlin'_1
originally published Jul. 1871 in Le Soir; title shortened to Le Siège de Berlin for inclusion in Lettres à un Absent, 1871; also included in expanded version of Contes du Lundi, 1878French
*Eliot*
- 'Contes du Lundi: L'Enfant Espion'_1
originally published Jul. 1871 in Le Soir; title shortened to 'L'Enfant Espion' for inclusion in Lettres à un Absent, 1871; also included in expanded version of Contes du Lundi, 1878French
*Eliot*
- 'Contes du Lundi: La Partie de Billard'_1
originally published Sep. 1871 in Le Soir; title shortened to 'La Partie de Billard' for inclusion in Contes du Lundi, 1873French
*Eliot*
- 'La Dernière Classe, Récit d'un Petit Alsacien'_1
originally published May 1872 in Le Soir; titled shortened to 'La Dernière Classe' for inclusion in Contes du Lundi, 1873French
*Eliot*
- 'Contes du Lundi: Le Zouave'_1
originally published Jul. 1872 in Le Soir; retitled 'Le Mauvais Zouave' for inclusion in Contes du Lundi, 1873French
*Eliot*
Guy de Maupassant
- 'L'Aventure de Walter Schnaffs'_1
originally published Apr. 1883 in Le GauloisFrench
*Eliot*
originally published Feb. 1883 in Gil BlasFrench
*Eliot*
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre_5
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
1795-96German
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *Bloom* *Trinity*
- Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers_7
The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774; revised 1787German
*Eliot* *Zulli* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Trinity* *Taylor* *Newman*
- Gottfried Keller
Das Fähnlein der Sieben Aufrechten_2
originally published in Deutschen Volkskalender, 1860German
*Eliot* *Great*
- Theodor Storm
Der Schimmelreiter_1
1888German
*Eliot*
- Theodor Fontane
Irrungen, Wirrungen_1
1888German
*Eliot*
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina_20
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
*Eliot* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Trinity* *Utne* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Reynolds* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prestuplénie i Nakazániye_23
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik; Mallison ("Smart") specifies Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's English translationRussian
*Eliot* *Powys* *Classics* *France* *Zulli* *Read* *Ward* *Van Doren* *Magill* *Learning* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Campbell* *Norway* *Great* *Guardian* *Zane* *Smart* *Harvard* *Newman* *Graphic* *Educated*
Ivan Turgenev
- Dvorânskoe Gnezdo_2
Home of the Gentry; Liza
originally published in Sovremennik, Jan. 1859Russian
*Eliot* *Powys*
- Otcy i Deti_11
Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij VéstnikRussian
*Eliot* *Durant* *Classics* *Rexroth* *Ward* *Magill* *Bloom* *Recommended* *Fadiman* *Great* *Newman*
- Juan Valera
Pepita Jiménez_1
originally published serially 1874 in Revista de EspañaSpanish
*Eliot*
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
En Glad Gut_1
A Happy Boy
1860Norwegian
*Eliot*
- Alexander Kielland
Skipper Worse_1
1882Norwegian
*Eliot*