The best known classic book anthology of the 20th century was the...

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The best known classic book anthology of the 20th century was the “Harvard Classics” compiled by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot in 1909.

Let’s see which books made the 51 volume set 🧵

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Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN ‘His Autobiography’ by Benjamin Franklin ‘The Journal of John Woolman’ by John Woolman ‘Fruits of Solitude’ by William Penn

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Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS Three Works by Plato ‘The Golden Sayings’ by Epictetus ‘The Meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius

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Vol. 3. BACON, MILTON’S PROSE, THOS. BROWNE ‘Essays, Civil and Moral’ and ‘New Atlantis’ by Francis Bacon ‘Areopagitica’ and ‘Tractate of Education’ by John Milton ‘Religio Medici’ by Sir Thomas Browne

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Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON ‘Complete Poems Written in English’ by John Milton

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Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON ‘Essays’ and ‘English Traits’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS ‘Poems and Songs’ by Robert Burns

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Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATION OF CHRIST ‘The Confessions’ by Saint Augustine ‘The Imitation of Christ’ by Thomas á Kempis

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Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS Four Plays by Aeschylus ‘Oedipus the King’ and ‘Antigone’ by Sophocles ‘Hippolytus’ and ‘The Bacchae’ by Euripides ‘The Frogs’ by Aristophanes

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Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY Three Works by Cicero ‘Letters’ by Pliny the Younger

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Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH ‘The Wealth of Nations’ by Adam Smith

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Vol. 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN ‘The Origin of Species’ by Charles Darwin

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Vol. 12. PLUTARCH’S LIVES ‘Lives’ by Plutarch

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Vol. 13. AENEID, VIRGIL ‘Aeneid’ by Virgil

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Vol. 14. DON QUIXOTE, PART 1, CERVANTES ‘Don Quixote, Part 1’ by Cervantes

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Vol. 15. PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ by John Bunyan ‘The Lives of Donne and Herbert’ by Izaak Walton

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Vol. 16. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS ‘Stories from the Thousand and One Nights’

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Vol. 17. FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSON ‘Fables’ by Aesop ‘Children’s and Household Tales’ by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ‘Tales’ by Hans Christian Andersen

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Vol. 18. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA ‘All for Love’ by John Dryden ‘The School for Scandal’ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ by Oliver Goldsmith ‘The Cenci’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘A Blot in the ‘Scutcheon’ by Robert Browning ‘Manfred’ by Lord Byron

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Vol. 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE ‘Faust, part 1’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ‘Egmont’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ‘Hermann and Dorothea’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ‘Dr. Faustus’ by Christopher Marlowe

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Vol. 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE ‘The Divine Comedy’ by Dante Alighieri

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Vol. 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI, MANZONI ‘I Promessi Sposi’ by Alessandro Manzoni

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Vol. 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer

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Vol. 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA ‘Two Years before the Mast’ by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

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Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE ‘On Taste’ by Edmund Burke ‘On the Sublime and Beautiful’ by Edmund Burke ‘Reflections on the French Revolution’ by Edmund Burke ‘A Letter to a Noble Lord’ by Edmund Burke

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Vol. 25. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE ‘Autobiography’ and ‘On Liberty’ by John Stuart Mill Three Works by Thomas Carlyle

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Vol. 26. CONTINENTAL DRAMA ‘Life is a Dream’ by Pedro Calderón de la Barca ‘Polyeucte’ by Pierre Corneille ‘Phèdre’ by Jean Racine ‘Tartuffe’ by Molière ‘Minna von Barnhelm’ by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ‘William Tell’ by Friedrich von Schiller

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Vol. 27. ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay

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Vol. 28. ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN Essays: English and American

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Vol. 29. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ by Charles Darwin

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Vol. 30. FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC ‘The Forces of Matter’ by Michael Faraday ‘The Chemical History of a Candle’ by Michael Faraday ‘On the Conservation of Force’ by Hermann von Helmholtz ‘Ice and Glaciers’ by Hermann von Helmholtz Two Works by Lord Kelvin ‘The Extent of the Universe’ by Simon Newcomb ‘Geographical Evolution’ by Sir Archibald Geikie

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Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI ‘The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

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Vol. 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS Literary and Philosophical Essays

Vol. 33. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS Voyages and Travels

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Vol. 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES ‘Discourse on Method’ by René Descartes ‘Letters on the English’ by Voltaire Two Works by Jean Jacques Rousseau ‘Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan’ by Thomas Hobbes

Vol. 35. CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD Chronicles and Romances

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Vol. 36. MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER ‘The Prince’ by Niccolò Machiavelli ‘The Life of Sir Thomas More’ by William Roper ‘Utopia’ by Sir Thomas More Three Works by Martin Luther

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Vol. 37. LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME ‘Some Thoughts Concerning Education’ by John Locke ‘Three Dialogues’ by George Berkeley ‘An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding’ by David Hume

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Vol. 38. HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR Scientific Papers

Vol. 39. PREFACES AND PROLOGUES Famous Prefaces and Prologues

Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1: CHAUCER TO GRAY English Poetry I: Chaucer to Gray

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Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD English Poetry II: Collins to Fitzgerald

Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman

Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS American Historical Documents

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Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS 1 Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius Hebrew: ‘Job’, ‘Psalms’ and ‘Ecclesiastes’ Christian I: ‘Luke’ and ‘Acts’

Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS 2 Christian II: ‘Corinthians I and II’ and ‘Hymns’ Buddhist Writings The Bhagavad-Gita Chapters from the ‘Koran’

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Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1 ‘Edward the Second’ by Christopher Marlowe ‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare ‘King Lear’ by William Shakespeare ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare ‘The Tempest’ by William Shakespeare

Vol. 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2 ‘The Shoemaker’s Holiday’ by Thomas Dekker ‘The Alchemist’ by Ben Jonson ‘Philaster’ by Beaumont and Fletcher ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ by John Webster ‘A New Way to Pay Old Debts’ by Philip Massinger

Vol. 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL ‘Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works’ by Blaise Pascal

Vol. 49. EPIC AND SAGA Beowulf The Song of Roland The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs

Vol. 50. INTRODUCTION AND READER’S GUIDE Introduction and Reader’s Guide

Vol. 51. LECTURES Lectures on the Harvard Classics

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