Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Contents: Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf." This e-book is all 51 volumes, the equivalent of over 20,000 printed pages in one e-book. It is fully searchable with a completely linked table of contents. + - All 20 volumes of the 'Harvard Classics Shelf Of Fiction' Each volume is also available separ...

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction—Complete 20 Volumes offers a sweeping conspectus of the modern novel and tale, tracing fiction's development from eighteenth-century satire and comic realism to psychological, historical, Gothic, romantic, and social forms. Its range extends from picaresque wit and domestic irony to supernatural terror, moral fable, realist portraiture, and expansive social critique, with landmark works such as novels of manners, historical romances, American sketches,...

HARVARD CLASSICS - All 20 Volumes in one Edition gathers a sweeping canon of narrative art, tracing the evolution of fiction from the eighteenth-century novel of manners and picaresque experiment to nineteenth-century realism, romance, satire, and psychological inquiry. Its range embraces social comedy, Gothic intensity, historical romance, moral fable, regional sketch, and philosophical tale, with landmark works of domestic observation, imperial imagination, and modern consciousness place...

The Harvard Fiction Classics in 20 Volumes represents a monumental collection encapsulating the profound shifts and stylistic developments in Western literature from the 18th to the early 20th century. Featuring a diverse array of seminal works by English, American, French, German, Russian, Spanish, and Scandinavian authors, this anthology showcases not only the evolutionary trajectory of narrative form but also the thematic richness exploring human condition, societal norms, and psycholog...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Robert Burn...

In The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm, readers are transported to a small coastal village in northern Germany where a newly appointed dike reeve grapples with the mysterious past of his predecessor while facing the challenges of his new role. Written in Storm's evocative and atmospheric prose, the novella delves into themes of fate, duty, and the supernatural, combining elements of gothic fiction with a realistic depiction of rural life in 19th-century Germany. Storm's use of vi...

This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: H. P. Lovecraft: The Tomb The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House Bram Stoker: Dracula The Dualists Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Mystery of Marie Rogêt The Premature Burial Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Evil Eye Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates The Night Land Algernon Blackwood: The Willows The Wendigo A ...

e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted collection of Dr. Eliot: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: Poems by John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Poems by Robert Burns V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas V. 9: Cicero and Pliny V. 10: The Wealth of Nations V. 11: The Origin of Species V. 12: Plutarch's Lives V. 13: Æneid V. 14: Don Quixote V. 15: Bun...

THIRST FOR BLOOD: Ultimate Collection for Halloween surveys the Gothic imagination in its many haunted forms: vampirism, revenants, cursed houses, spectral doubles, occult knowledge, and the terrors concealed within ordinary life. Moving from eighteenth-century Gothic romance through Victorian sensation fiction and fin-de-siècle decadence to psychological and cosmic horror, the volume juxtaposes ornate medievalism, detective-inflected mysteries, folktale, satire, and unsettling realism. It...

According to Wikipedia: "Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (September 14, 1817 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, then Danish, today in Germany - July 4, 1888 in Hademarschen, Germany) studied and practiced law in Schleswig-Holstein and - emigrated under Danish rule - to Thuringia. He also wrote a number of stories, poems and novellas. His two most well-known works are the novellas Immensee (1849) [1] and The Dykemaster (Der Schimmelreiter), first published in April 1888 in the Deutsche Rundschau. Oth...

The 'Harvard Classics: The Shelf of Fiction - Complete Edition: Vol.1-20' is a grand exploration of nineteenth-century literature, spanning a multitude of genres and styles. This comprehensive anthology encapsulates the transformative period of the 1800s, showcasing the intricate tapestry of romanticism, realism, and the early onset of modernist sensibilities. From the pioneering narratives of social critique to the intricate psychological portraits and the poetic landscapes of adventure a...