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
- The Essays of Francis Bacon, by Francis Bacon - New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
- Areopagitica, by John Milton
- Tractate of Education, by John Milton
- Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia, by Sir Thomas Browne
Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON
Complete poems written in English, by John Milton (not available as compiled in Harvard Classics)
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
Poems and songs, by Robert Burns (not available as compiled in Harvard Classics)
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
Vol. 15. Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress. Walton, Lives of Donne and Herbert.
Vol. 16. The Thousand and One Nights
Vol. 17. Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Anderson
Vol. 18. Modern English Drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron
Vol. 19. Goethe: Faust, Egmont, etc. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
Vol. 20. Dante. The Divine Comedy
Vol. 21. Manzoni. I Promessi Sposi
Vol. 22. Homer. The Odyssey
Vol. 23. Dana. Two Years Before the Mast
Vol. 24. Burke. On the Sublime; Reflections on the Revolution in France, etc.
Vol. 25. J. S. Mill and Thomas Carlyle
Vol. 26. Continental Drama
Vol. 27. English Essays, Sidney to Macaulay
Vol. 28. English and American Essays
Vol. 29. Darwin. Voyage of the Beagle
Vol. 30. Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, etc. (Scientific Papers)
31 Cellini. Autobiography 32 Montaigne, Sainte-Beuve, Renan, etc. 33 Voyages and Travels 34 Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes 35 Froissart, Malory, Holinshed 36 Machiavelli, More, Luther 37 Locke, Berkeley, Hume 38 Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur 39 Famous Prefaces 40 English Poetry, 1 41 English Poetry, 2 42 English Poetry, 3 43 American Historical Documents 44 Sacred Writings, 1 45 Sacred Writings, 2 46 Elizabethan Drama, 1 47 Elizabethan Drama, 2 48 Pascal. Thoughts and Minor Works 49 Epic and Saga 50 Introduction, Reader's Guide and Indexes 51 Lectures on The Harvard Classics