The Five-Foot Shelf, with its introductions, notes, guides to reading, and exhaustive indexes, may claim to constitute a reading course unparalleled in comprehensiveness and authority.
-Notes on the Lectures
William Allan
The Harvard Classics
The Shelf of Fiction
Selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD
The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.
CONTENTS
NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON, 1909-1917
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 Job , Psalms & Ecclesiastes Luke & Acts
XLV .Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns Writings The Bhagavad-Gita 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
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
Bibliographic Record General Introduction Index to Criticisms and Interpretations
VOLS. I & II.
The History of Tom Jones , by Henry Fielding
III.
A Sentimental Journey , by Laurence Sterne
Pride and Prejudice , by Jane Austen
IV.
Guy Mannering , by Sir Walter Scott
V & VI.
Vanity Fair , by William Makepeace Thackeray
VII. & VIII.
David Copperfield , by Charles Dickens
IX.
The Mill on the Floss , by George Eliot
X.
The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini's Daughter , by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow , by Washington Irving
Three Short Stories , by Edgar Allan Poe
Three Short Stories , by Francis Bret Harte
Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog , by Samuel L. Clemens
The Man without a Country , by Edward Everett Hale
XI.
The Portrait of a Lady , by Henry James
XII.
Notre Dame de Paris , by Victor Marie Hugo
XIII.
Old Goriot , by Honoré de Balzac
The Devil's Pool , by George Sand
The Story of a White Blackbird , by Alfred de Musset
Five Short Stories , by Alphonse Daudet
Two Short Stories , by Guy de Maupassant
XIV. & XV.
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship & The Sorrows of Werther , by J. W. von Goethe
The Banner of the Upright Seven , by Gottfried Keller
The Rider on the White Horse , by Theodor Storm
Trials and Tribulations , by Theodor Fontane
XVI. & XVII.
Anna Karenin & Ivan the Fool , by Leo Tolstoy
XVIII.
Crime and Punishment , by Fyodor Dostoevsky
XIX.
A House of Gentlefolk & Fathers and Children , by Ivan Turgenev
XX.
Pepita Jimenez , by Juan Valera
A Happy Boy , by Björnstjerne Björnson
Skipper Worse , by Alexander L. Kielland
