Listing of volumes 1 to 51

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The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Source texts are available on Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/harvardclassics

Titles listed under each volume that are hyper-linked are completed and point to the Librivox catalog page.

Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN

- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin

- The Journal of John Woolman, by John Woolman (1774 and subsequent editions) - (in progress since 2012)

- Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn

Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS

- The Apology, by Plato

- Phaedo, by Plato

- Crito, by Plato (in Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024 )

- The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, by Epictetus

- The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

Vol. 3. BACON, MILTON'S PROSE, THOS. BROWNE

(not available as compiled in Harvard Classics) Essays, Civil and Moral, and New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon (Tractate of Education appears to be unavailable, Areopagitica complete) Areopagitica and Tractate of Education, by John Milton (complete) Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne

Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON

(not available as compiled in Harvard Classics) Complete poems written in English, by John Milton

Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON

(not available as compiled in Harvard Classics) Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS

(not available as compiled in Harvard Classics) Poems and songs, by Robert Burns

Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATIONS OF CHRIST

(complete) The Confessions, by Saint Augustine (complete) The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis

Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS

(not available as compiled in Harvard Classics) Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies, and Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus (complete) Oedipus the King and Antigone, by Sophocles (complete) Hippolytus and The Bacchae, by Euripides (complete) The Frogs, by Aristophanes

Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY

(not available as compiled in Harvard Classics) On Friendship, On Old Age, and letters, by Cicero (not available as compiled in Harvard Classics) Letters, by Pliny the Younger

Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH

(complete) The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith

Vol. 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN

(complete) The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin

Vol. 12. PLUTARCH'S LIVES

(complete) Lives, by Plutarch

Vol. 13. AENEID, VIRGIL

(complete) Aeneid, by Virgil

Vol. 14. DON QUIXOTE, PART 1, CERVANTES

(complete) Don Quixote, part 1, by Cervantes

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