Listing of volumes 1 to 51
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
- 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