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...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers] - The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] - The Woman in Whi...

Darwin's revolutionary offering of the theory of evolution is captured here, in one of the most important (and, to some, controversial) biological texts of all time. His theory can be distilled to two simple points: that diverse groups of animals evolve from one or a few common ancestors, and the mechanism by which this evolution takes place is natural selection. From the Galapagos Islands to Ancient Egypt to one's own back yard, Darwin points to case after case of evolutionary theory in a...

Few books have changed the way we understand life as profoundly as this one. In On the Origin of Species (6th Edition), Charles Darwin presents the groundbreaking ideas that transformed the study of biology and forever changed humanity's understanding of the natural world. Through careful observation, scientific reasoning, and extensive evidence, Darwin explores the processes that shape the diversity of life, introducing concepts that continue to influence modern science. The Sixth Edition...

It took Charles Darwin more than twenty years to publish this book, in part because he realized that it would ignite a firestorm of controversy. On the Origin of Species first appeared in 1859, and it remains a continuing source of conflict to this day. Even among those who reject its ideas, however, the work's impact is undeniable. In science, philosophy, and theology, this is a book that changed the world.In addition to its status as the focus of a dramatic turning point in scien...

The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state. In France, the central doctrines of the Enlightenment philosophers were individual liberty and religious tolerance, in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church. The Enl...

On the Origin of Species (1859) is legendary naturalist Charles Darwin's groundbreaking and foundational study that birthed the theory of evolutionary biology.Sparking controversy from the time of its publication to the present day, Darwin’s theory of natural selection, where upon individuals of the same species have a more robust chance of survival thanks to their unique combination of physical characteristics, completely changed how the world viewed huma...

Charles Darwin's autobiographical recollections trace the making of a scientific mind with striking honesty and warmth. Looking back on his childhood in Shrewsbury, he remembers his mother's death, early schooling, and the first stirrings of his passion for collecting plants, shells, minerals, insects, and birds. He also confesses to boyish pranks, falsehoods, and moral scruples, alongside a deep affection for animals, dogs, and angling. At Dr. Butler's school and later at Edinburgh, he fi...

After World War II, as other actors from the Golden Age faced oblivion, Clark Gable successfully adapted to the changing values of the New Hollywood and the New America. This, the third in Blood Moon's three-part overview of "The Icon Who Endured," tells how he did it. Here it is, the inside scoop on America's postwar reverence for everything to do with The King of Hollywood. It's about the final years of Clark Gable, exposed full-frontal as a symbol of Th...

For centuries, England’s country houses have been where affluent, grand families have displayed their wealth and status. The country is still well endowed with these houses today, although many of them are now popular visitor attractions instead of private homes, but there are also many houses that have disappeared over the years. Some have been demolished as they could no longer be sustained due to the changes in social habits, surrounding development or because of the cost of repairs or ...

"On the Origin of Species," Charles Darwin presents his theory of evolution, which revolutionized the way we understand the diversity of life on Earth. The main ideas of the book can be summarized as follows:Common Descent: Darwin proposed that all species of living organisms are related by a common ancestry, meaning that they share a history of descent from a common ancestor.Descent with Modification: Darwin introduced the concept that species change over time through a process called "de...