Harvard Classics

The Harvard Universal 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.

Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result.

Eliot worked for one year with William A. Neilson, a professor of English; Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes. Each volume had 400–450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies." The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's and elsewhere, with great success.

Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN

 * His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin
 * The Journal of John Woolman, by John Woolman (1774 and subsequent editions)
 * Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn

Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS

 * The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, by Plato
 * The Golden Sayings, by Epictetus
 * The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

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

Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON

 * Complete poems written in English, by John Milton

Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON

 * Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS

 * Poems and songs, by Robert Burns

Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATION OF CHRIST

 * The Confessions, by Saint Augustine''
 * The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis

Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS

 * Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies, and Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus
 * Oedipus the King and Antigone, by Sophocles
 * Hippolytus and The Bacchae, by Euripides
 * The Frogs, by Aristophanes

Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY

 * On Friendship, On Old Age, and Letters, by Cicero
 * Letters, by Pliny the Younger

Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH

 * The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith

Vol. 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN

 * The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin

Vol. 12. PLUTARCH'S LIVES

 * Lives, by Plutarch

Vol. 13. AENEID, VIRGIL

 * Aeneid, by Virgil

Vol. 14. DON QUIXOTE, PART 1, CERVANTES

 * Don Quixote, part 1, by Cervantes

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

Vol. 16. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

 * Stories from the Thousand and One Nights, translated by Edward William Lane, revised by Stanley Lane-Poole

Vol. 17. FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSEN

 * Fables, by Aesop
 * Children's and Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
 * Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen

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

Vol. 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE

 * Faust, part 1, Egmont, and Hermann and Dorothea, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe

Vol. 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE

 * The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri

Vol. 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI, MANZONI

 * I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni

Vol. 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER

 * The Odyssey, by Homer

Vol. 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA

 * Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE

 * On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution, and A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke

Vol. 25. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE

 * Autobiography and On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
 * Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, and Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle

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

Vol. 29. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN

 * The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin

Vol. 30. FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC

 * The Forces of Matter and The Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael Faraday
 * On the Conservation of Force and Ice and Glaciers, by Hermann von Helmholtz
 * The Wave Theory of Light and The Tides, by Lord Kelvin
 * The Extent of the Universe, by Simon Newcomb
 * Geographical Evolution, by Sir Archibald Geikie

Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI

 * The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Vol. 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

 * Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 * Montaigne and What is a Classic?, by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
 * The Poetry of the Celtic Races, by Ernest Renan
 * The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
 * Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, by Friedrich von Schiller
 * Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant
 * Byron and Goethe, by Giuseppe Mazzini

Vol. 33. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

 * An account of Egypt from The Histories, by Herodotus
 * Germany, by Tacitus
 * Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols
 * Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World, by Francis Pretty
 * Drake's Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges
 * Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland, by Edward Haies
 * The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh

Vol. 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES

 * Discourse on Method, by René Descartes
 * Letters on the English, by Voltaire
 * On the Inequality among Mankind and Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
 * Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes

Vol. 35. CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD

 * Chronicles, by Jean Froissart
 * The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory
 * A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison

Vol. 36. MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER

 * The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
 * The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper
 * Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
 * The Ninety-Five Theses, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, and On the Freedom of a Christian, by Martin Luther

Vol. 37. LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME

 * Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
 * Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley
 * An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume

Vol. 38. HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR

 * The Oath of Hippocrates
 * Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré
 * On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey
 * The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner
 * The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister
 * Scientific papers, by Louis Pasteur
 * Scientific papers, by Charles Lyell

Vol. 39. PREFACES AND PROLOGUES TO FAMOUS BOOKS

 * "Title, Prologue and Epilogues to the Recuyell of the Histories of Troy", by William Caxton
 * "Epilogue to Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers", by William Caxton
 * "Prologue to Golden Legend", by William Caxton
 * "Prologue to Caton", by William Caxton
 * "Epilogue to Aesop", by William Caxton
 * "Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales", by William Caxton
 * "Prologue to Malory's King Arthur"
 * "Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos", by William Caxton
 * "Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin
 * "Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies" by Nicolaus Copernicus
 * "Preface to the History of the Reformation in Scotland", by John Knox
 * "Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on The Faerie Queene", by Edmund Spenser
 * "Preface to the History of the World" by Sir Walter Raleigh
 * "Prooemium, Epistle Dedicatory, Preface, and Plan of the Instauratio Magna, etc.", by Francis Bacon
 * "Preface to the Novum Organum", by Francis Bacon
 * "Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays" by Heminge and Condell
 * "Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Pricipia Mathematica", by Sir Isaac Newton
 * "Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern", by John Dryden
 * "Preface to Joseph Andrews", by Henry Fielding
 * "Preface to the English Dictionary", by Samuel Johnson
 * "Preface to Shakespeare", by Samuel Johnson
 * "Introduction to the Propylaen", by J.W. von Goethe
 * "Prefaces to Various Volumes of Poems", by William Wordsworth
 * "Appendix to Lyrical Ballads", by William Wordsworth
 * "Essay Supplementary to Preface", by William Wordsworth
 * "Preface to Cromwell", by Victor Hugo
 * "Preface to Leaves of Grass", by Walt Whitman
 * "Introduction to the History of English Literature", by H.A. Taine

Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1: CHAUCER TO GRAY

 * Geoffrey Chaucer
 * "The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales"
 * "The Nun’s Priest’s Tale"
 * Traditional Ballads
 * "The Douglas Tragedy"
 * "The Twa Sisters"
 * "Edward"
 * "Babylon; or, The Bonnie Banks o Fordie"
 * "Hind Horn"
 * "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet"
 * "Love Gregor"
 * "Bonny Barbara Allan"
 * "The Gay Goss-Hawk"
 * "The Three Ravens"
 * "The Twa Corbies"
 * "Sir Patrick Spence"
 * "Thomas Rymer and the Queen of Elfland"
 * "Sweet William’s Ghost"
 * "The Wife of Usher’s Well"
 * "Hugh of Lincoln"
 * "Young Bicham"
 * "Get Up and Bar the Door"
 * "The Battle of Otterburn"
 * "Chevy Chase"
 * "Johnie Armstrong"
 * "Captain Car"
 * "The Bonny Earl of Murray"
 * "Kinmont Willie"
 * "Bonnie George Campbell"
 * "The Dowy Houms o Yarrow"
 * "Mary Hamilton"
 * "The Baron of Brackley"
 * "Bewick and Grahame"
 * "A Gest of Robyn Hode"


 * Anonymous
 * "Balow"
 * "The Old Cloak"
 * "Jolly Good Ale and Old"
 * Sir Thomas Wyatt
 * "A Supplication"
 * "The Lover’s Appeal"
 * Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey8
 * "Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover"
 * "The Means to Attain Happy Life"
 * George Gascoigne
 * "A Lover’s Lullaby"
 * Nicholas Breton
 * "Phillida and Coridon"
 * Anonymous
 * "A Sweet Lullaby"
 * "Preparations"
 * "The Unfaithful Shepherdess"
 * Anthony Munday
 * "Beauty Bathin
 * Richard Edwardes}}
 * "Amantium Irae"
 * Sir Walter Raleigh
 * "His Pilgrimage"
 * "The Lie"
 * "Verses"
 * "What Is Our Life"
 * Sir Edward Dyer
 * "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
 * John Lyly
 * "Cupid and Campaspe"
 * "Spring’s Welcome"
 * Sir Philip Sidney
 * "Song"
 * "A Dirge"
 * "A Ditty"
 * "Loving in Truth"
 * "Be Your Words Made, Good Sir, of Indian Ware"
 * "To Sleep"
 * "To the Moon"
 * Thomas Lodge
 * "Rosalind’s Madrigal"
 * "Rosaline"
 * "Phillis"
 * George Peele
 * "Paris and none"
 * Robert Southwell
 * "The Burning Babe"
 * Samuel Daniel
 * "Beauty, Time, and Love Sonnets"
 * "To Sleep"
 * Michael Drayton
 * "Agincourt"
 * "To the Virginian Voyage"
 * "Love’s Farewell"
 * Henry Constable
 * "Diaphenia"
 * Edmund Spenser
 * "Prothalamion"
 * "Epithalamion"
 * "A Ditty"
 * "Perigot and Willie’s Roundelay"
 * "Easter"
 * "What Guile Is This?"
 * "Fair Is My Love"
 * "So Oft as I Her Beauty do Behold"
 * "Rudely Thou Wrongest My Dear Heart’s Desire"
 * "Like as the Culver, on the Bared Bough"
 * William Habington
 * "To Roses in the Bosom of Castara"
 * "Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam"
 * Christopher Marlowe
 * "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
 * "Her Reply"
 * Richard Rowlands
 * "Our Blessed Lady’s Lullaby"
 * Thomas Nashe
 * "In Time of Pestilence"
 * "Spring"
 * William Shakespeare
 * "Winter"
 * "O Mistress Mine"
 * "Fancy"
 * "Under the Greenwood Tree"
 * "A Lover and His Lass"
 * "Silvia"
 * "Spring"
 * "Lullaby"
 * "Ophelia’s Song"
 * "Where the Bee Sucks"
 * "Take, O Take"
 * "A Madrigal"
 * "Amiens’ Song"
 * "Dawn Song"
 * "Dirge of Love"
 * "Fidele’s Dirge"
 * Sonnets 18, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 54, 55, 57, 60, 64, 65, 66, 71, 73, 87, 90, 94, 97, 98, 104, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 116, 129, 146, 148.
 * Robert Greene
 * "Connent"
 * Richard Barnfield
 * "The Nightingale"
 * Thomas Campion
 * "Cherry-ripe"
 * "Follow your Saint"
 * "When to Her Lute Corinna Sings"
 * "Follow thy Fair Sun"
 * "Turn All thy Thoughts to Eyes"
 * "Integer Vitae"
 * Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
 * "A Passion of my Lord of Essex"
 * Sir Henry Wotton
 * "Elizabeth of Bohemia"
 * "Character of a Happy Life"
 * Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
 * "A Renunciation"
 * Ben Jonson
 * "Simplex Munditiis"
 * "The Triumph"
 * "The Noble Nature"
 * "To Celia"
 * "A Farewell to the World"
 * "A Nymph’s Passion"
 * "Epode"
 * "Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H."
 * "On Lucy, Countess of Bedford"
 * "An Ode to Himself"
 * "Hymn to Diana"
 * "On Salathiel Pavy"
 * "His Supposed Mistress"
 * "To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us"
 * John Donne
 * "The Funeral"
 * "A Hymn to God the Father"
 * "Valediction, Forbidding Mourning"
 * "Death"
 * "The Dream"
 * "Song"
 * "Sweetest Love, I do not Go"
 * "Lover’s Infiniteness"
 * "Love’s Deity"
 * "Stay, O Sweet"
 * "The Blossom"
 * "The Good Morrow"
 * "Present in Absence"
 * Joshua Sylvester
 * "Love’s Omnipresence"
 * William Alexander, Earl of Stirling
 * "To Aurora"
 * Richard Corbet
 * "Farewell, Rewards and Fairies"
 * Thomas Heywood
 * "Pack, Clouds, Away"
 * Thomas Dekker
 * "Country Glee"
 * "Cold’s the Wind"
 * "O Sweet Content"
 * Francis Beaumont
 * "On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey"
 * "Master Francis Beaumont’s Letter to Ben Jonson"
 * John Fletcher
 * "Aspatia’s Song"
 * "Melancholy"
 * John Webster
 * "Call for the Robin-Redbreast"
 * Anonymous
 * "O Waly, Waly"
 * "Helen of Kirconnell"
 * "My Love in Her Attire"
 * "Love Not Me"
 * William Drummond
 * "Saint John Baptist"
 * "Madrigal"
 * "Life"
 * "Human Folly"
 * "The Problem"
 * "To His Lute"
 * "For the Magdalene"
 * "Content and Resolute"
 * "Alexis, Here She Stayed; Among These Pines"
 * "Summons to Love"
 * George Wither
 * "I Loved a Lass"
 * "The Lover’s Resolution"
 * William Browne (?)
 * "On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke"
 * Robert Herrick
 * "Cherry-Ripe"
 * "A Child’s Grace"
 * "The Mad Maid’s Song"
 * "To the Virgins"
 * "To Dianeme"
 * "A Sweet Disorder"
 * "Whenas in Silks"
 * "To Anthea who may Command Him Any Thing"
 * "To Daffodils"
 * "To Blossoms"
 * "Corinna’s Maying"
 * Francis Quarles
 * "An Ecstasy"
 * George Herbert
 * "Love"
 * "Virtue"
 * "The Elixir"
 * "The Collar"
 * "The Flower"
 * "Easter Song"
 * "The Pulley"
 * Henry Vaughan
 * "Beyond the Veil"
 * "The Retreat"
 * Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban
 * "Life"
 * James Shirley
 * "The Glories of our Blood and State"
 * "The Last Conqueror"
 * Thomas Carew
 * "The True Beauty"
 * "Ask Me No More"
 * "Know, Celia"
 * "Give Me More Love"
 * Sir John Suckling
 * "The Constant Lover"
 * "Why So Pale and Wan"
 * Sir William D’Avenant
 * "Dawn Song"
 * Richard Lovelace
 * "To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars"
 * "To Althea from Prison"
 * "To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas"
 * Edmund Waller
 * "On a Girdle"
 * "Go, Lovely Rose!"
 * William Cartwright
 * "On the Queen’s Return from the Low Countries"
 * James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
 * "My Dear and Only Love"
 * Richard Crashaw
 * "Wishes for the Supposed Mistress"
 * "Upon the Book and Picture of the Seraphical Saint Teresa"
 * Thomas Jordan
 * "Let Us Drink and Be Merry"
 * Abraham Cowley
 * "A Supplication"
 * "Cheer Up, My Mates"
 * "Drinking"
 * "On the Death of Mr. William Hervey"
 * Alexander Brome
 * "The Resolve"
 * Andrew Marvell
 * "A Garden"
 * "The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers"
 * "Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland"
 * "Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda"
 * "Thoughts in a Garden"
 * "Love Will Find Out the Way"
 * "Phillada Flouts Me"
 * Earl of Rochester
 * "Epitaph on Charles II"
 * Sir Charles Sedley
 * "Chloris"
 * "Celia"
 * John Dryden
 * "Ode"
 * "Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going Out of the Town in the Spring"
 * "Song for St. Cecilia’s Day"
 * "Alexander’s Feast"
 * "On Milton"
 * Matthew Prior
 * "To a Child of Quality"
 * "Cloe"
 * "The Dying Adrian to His Soul"
 * "Epigram"
 * Isaac Watts
 * "True Greatness"
 * Lady Grisel Baillie
 * "Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee"
 * Joseph Addison
 * "Hymn"
 * Allan Ramsay
 * "Peggy"
 * John Gay
 * "Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing"
 * "Black-Eyed Susan"
 * Henry Carey
 * "Sally in our Alley"
 * Alexander Pope
 * "Solitude"
 * "On a Certain Lady at Court"
 * "An Essay on Man: The Design"
 * Ambrose Philips
 * "To Charlotte Pulteney"
 * Colley Cibber
 * "The Blind Boy"
 * James Thomson}}
 * "Rule, Britannia"
 * "To Fortune"
 * Thomas Gray
 * "Elegy"
 * "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"
 * "Hymn to Adversity"
 * "Ode on the Spring"
 * "The Progress of Poesy"
 * "The Bard"
 * "Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude"
 * "On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes"
 * George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe
 * "Shorten Sail"

Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD

 * William Collins
 * "Fidele"
 * "Ode Written in MDCCXLVI"
 * "The Passions"
 * "To Evening"
 * George Sewell
 * "The Dying Man in His Garden"
 * Alison Rutherford Cockburn
 * "The Flowers of the Forest"
 * Jane Elliot
 * "Lament for Flodden"
 * Christopher Smart
 * "A Song to David"
 * Anonymous
 * "Willy Drowned in Yarrow"
 * John Logan
 * "The Braes of Yarrow"
 * Henry Fielding
 * "A Hunting Song"
 * Charles Dibdin
 * "Tom Bowling"
 * Samuel Johnson
 * "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet"
 * "A Satire"
 * Oliver Goldsmith
 * "When Lovely Woman Stoops"
 * "Retaliation"
 * "The Deserted Village"
 * "The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society"
 * Robert Graham of Gartmore
 * "If Doughty Deeds"
 * Adam Austin
 * "For Lack of Gold"
 * William Cowper
 * "Loss of the Royal George"
 * "To a Young Lady"
 * "The Poplar Field"
 * "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk"
 * "To Mary Unwin"
 * "To the Same"
 * "Boadicea: An Ode"
 * "The Castaway"
 * "The Shrubbery"
 * "On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture Out of Norfolk"
 * "The Diverting History of John Gilpin"
 * Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 * "Drinking Song"
 * Anna Laetitia Barbauld
 * "Life"
 * Isobel Pagan
 * "Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes"
 * Lady Anne Lindsay
 * "Auld Robin Gray"
 * Thomas Chatterton
 * "Song from Ælla"
 * Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
 * "The Lond o' the Leal"
 * "He's Ower the Hills that I Lo'e Weel"
 * "The Auld House"
 * "The Laird o' Cockpen"
 * "The Rowan Tree"
 * "Wha'll be King but Charlie?"
 * "Charlie Is My Darling"
 * Alexander Ross
 * "Wooed and Married and A'"
 * John Skinner
 * "Tullochgorum"
 * Michael Bruce
 * "To the Cuckoo"
 * George Halket
 * "Logie o' Buchan"
 * William Hamilton of Bangour
 * "The Braes of Yarrow"
 * Hector MacNeil
 * "I Lo'ed Ne'er a Laddie but Ane"
 * "Come Under My Plaidie"
 * Sir William Jones
 * "An Ode"
 * "On Parent Knees a Naked New-born Child"
 * Susanna Blamire
 * "And Ye Shall Walk in Silk Attire"
 * Anne Hunter}}
 * "My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair"
 * John Dunlop
 * "The Year, That's Awa'"
 * Samuel Rogers
 * "A Wish"
 * "The Sleeping Beauty"
 * William Blake
 * "The Tiger"
 * "Ah! Sun-flower"
 * "To Spring"
 * "Reeds of Innocence"
 * "Night"
 * "Auguries of Innocence"
 * "Nurse's Song"
 * "Holy Thursday"
 * "The Divine Image"
 * "Song"
 * John Collins
 * "To-Morrow"
 * Robert Tannahill
 * "Jessie, the Flower o' Dunblane"
 * "Gloomy Winter's Now Awa'"
 * William Wordsworth
 * "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
 * "My Heart Leaps Up"
 * "The Two April Mornings"
 * "The Fountain"
 * "Written in March"
 * "Nature and the Poet"
 * "Ruth: Or the Influence of Nature"
 * "A Lesson"
 * "Michael"
 * "Yarrow Unvisited"
 * "Yarrow Visited"
 * "Yarrow Revisited"
 * "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
 * "The Daffodils"
 * "To the Daisy"
 * "To the Cuckoo"
 * "The Green Linnet"
 * "Written in Early Spring"
 * "To the Skylark"
 * "The Affliction of Margaret"
 * "Simon Lee the Old Huntsman"
 * "Ode to Duty"
 * "She Was a Phantom of Delight"
 * "To the Highland Girl of Inversneyde"
 * "The Solitary Reaper"
 * "The Reverie of Poor Susan"
 * "To Toussaint L'Ouverture"
 * "Character of the Happy Warrior"
 * "Resolution and Independence"
 * "Laodamia"
 * "We Are Seven"
 * "Lucy"
 * "The Inner Vision"
 * "By the Sea"
 * "Upon Westminster Bridge"
 * "To a Distant Friend"
 * "Desiseria"
 * "We Must Be Free or Die"
 * "England and Switzerland"
 * "On the Extonction of the Venetian Republic"
 * "London, MDCCCII"
 * "The Same"
 * "When I Have Borne"
 * "The World is Too Much With Us"
 * "Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge"
 * "Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon"
 * "Composed at Neidpath Castle, the Property of Lord Queensbury"
 * "Admonition to a Traveller"
 * "To Sleep"
 * "The Sonnet"
 * William Lisle Bowles
 * "Dover Cliffs"
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
 * "Kubla Khan"
 * "Youth and Age"
 * "Love"
 * "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
 * Christabel
 * "Dejection: an Ode"
 * Robert Southey
 * "After Blenheim"
 * "The Scholar"
 * Charles Lamb
 * "The Old Familiar Faces"
 * "Hester"
 * "On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born"
 * Sir Walter Scott
 * "The Outlaw"
 * "To a Lock of Hair"
 * "Jock of Hazeldean"
 * "Eleu Loro"
 * "A Serenade"
 * "The Rover"
 * "The Maid of Neidpath"
 * "Gathering Song of Donald the Black"
 * "Border Ballad"
 * "The Pride of Youth"
 * "Coronach"
 * "Lucy Ashton's Song"
 * "Answer"
 * "Rosabelle"
 * "Hunting Song"
 * "Lochinvar"
 * "Bonny Dundee"
 * "Datur Hora Quieti"
 * "Here's a Health to King Charles
 * "Harp of the North, Farewell!"
 * James Hogg
 * "Kilmeny"
 * "When the Kye Comes Hame"
 * "The Skylark"
 * "Lock the Door, Lariston"
 * Robert Surtees
 * "Barthram's Dirge"
 * Thomas Campbell
 * "The Soldier's Dream"
 * "To the Evening Star"
 * "Ode to Winter"
 * "Lord Ullin's Daughter"
 * "The River of Life"
 * "To the Evening Star"
 * "The Maid of Neidpath"
 * "Ye Mariners of England"
 * "Battle of the Baltic"
 * "Hohenlinden"
 * J. Campbell
 * "Freedom and Love"
 * Allan Cunningham
 * "Hame, Hame, Hame"
 * "A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea"
 * George Gordon, Lord Byron
 * "Youth and Age"
 * "The Destruction of Sennacherib"
 * "Elegy on Thyrza"
 * "When We Two Parted"
 * "For Music"
 * "She Walks in Beauty"
 * "All for Love"
 * "Elegy"
 * "To Augusta"
 * "Epistle to Augusta"
 * "Maid of Athens"
 * "Darkness"
 * "Longing"
 * "Fare Thee Well"
 * The Prisoner of Chillon
 * "On the Castle of Chillon"
 * "Song of Saul, Before His Last Battle"
 * "The Isles of Greece"
 * "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"
 * Thomas Moore
 * "The Light of Other Days"
 * "Pro Patria Mori"
 * "The Meeting of the Waters"
 * "The Last Rose of Summer"
 * "The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls"
 * "A Canadian Boat-Song"
 * "The Journey Onwards"
 * "The Young May Moon"
 * "Echo"
 * "At the Mid Hour of Night"
 * Charles Wolfe
 * "The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * "Hymn of Pan"
 * Hellas
 * "Invocation"
 * "Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples"
 * "I Fear Thy Kisses"
 * "Lines to an Indian Air"
 * "To a Skylark"
 * "Love's Philosophy"
 * "To the Night"
 * "Ode to the West Wind"
 * "Written Among the Euganean Hills, North Italy"
 * "Hymn to the Spirit of Nature"
 * "A Lament"
 * "A Dream of the Unknown"
 * "The Invitation"
 * "The Recollection"
 * "To the Moon"
 * "A Widow Bird"
 * "To a Lady, with a Guitar"
 * "One Word is Too Often Profaned"
 * "Ozymandias of Egypt"
 * "The Flight of Love"
 * "The Cloud"
 * "Stanzas–April, 1814"
 * "Music, When Soft Voices Die"
 * "The Poet's Dream"
 * "The World's Wanderers"
 * Adonaïs
 * James Henry Leigh Hunt
 * "Jenny kiss'd Me"
 * "Abou Ben Adhem"
 * John Keats
 * "The Realm of Fancy"
 * "Ode on the Poets"
 * "The Mermaid Tavern"
 * "Happy Insensibility"
 * "Ode to a Nightingale"
 * "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
 * "Ode to Autumn"
 * "Ode to Psyche"
 * "Ode on Melancholy"
 * "The Eve of St. Agnes"
 * "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
 * "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"
 * "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
 * "To Sleep"
 * "The Human Seasons"
 * "Great Spirits Now on Earth are Sojourning"
 * "The Terror of Death"
 * "Last Sonnet"
 * Walter Savage Landor
 * "Rose Aylmer"
 * "Twenty Years Hence"
 * "Proud Word You Never Spoke"
 * "Absence"
 * "Dirce"
 * "Corinna to Tanagra, from Athens"
 * "Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel"
 * "Well I Remember"
 * "No, My Own Love"
 * "Robert Browning"
 * "The Death of Artemidora"
 * "Iphigeneia"
 * "'Do You Remember Me?'"
 * "For an Epitaph at Fiesole"
 * "On Lucretia Borgia's Hair"
 * "On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday"
 * "To My Ninth Decade"
 * "Death Stands Above Me"
 * "On Living Too Long"
 * Thomas Hood
 * "Fair Ines"
 * "The Bridge of Sighs"
 * "The Death Bed"
 * "Past and Present"
 * Sir Aubrey de Vere
 * "Glengariff"
 * Hartley Coleridge
 * "She Is Not Fair"
 * Joseph Blanco White
 * "To Night"
 * George Darley
 * "The Loveliness of Love"
 * Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay
 * "The Armada"
 * "A Jacobite's Epitaph"
 * Sir William Edmondstoune Aytoune
 * "The Refusal of Charon"
 * Hugh Miller
 * "The Babie"
 * Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin
 * 8"Lament of the Irish Emigrant"
 * Charles Tennyson Turner
 * "Letty's Globe"
 * Sir Samuel Ferguson
 * "The Fair Hills of Ireland"
 * Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 * "A Musical Instrument"
 * "Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1-44"
 * "The Sleep"
 * Edward Fitzgerald
 * "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishápúr"

Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN

 * Alfred, Lord Tennyson
 * The Lady of Shalott
 * Sweet and Low
 * Tears, Idle Tears
 * Blow, Bugle Blow
 * Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead
 * Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
 * O Swallow, Swallow
 * Break, Break, Break
 * In the Valley of Cauteretz
 * Vivien's Song
 * Enid's Song
 * Ulysses
 * Locksley Hall
 * Morte D'Arthur
 * The Lotus-Eaters
 * You Ask Me, Why
 * Love Thou Thy Land
 * Sir Galahad
 * The Higher Pantheism
 * Flower in the Crannied Wall
 * Wages
 * The Charge of the Light Brigade
 * The Revenge
 * Rizpah
 * To Virgil
 * Maud
 * Crossing the Bar


 * Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton


 * William Makepeace Thackray


 * J. Wilson


 * Robert Browning


 * Emily Bronte


 * Robert Stephen Hawker


 * Coventry Patmore


 * William (Johnson) Cory


 * Sydney Dobell


 * William Allingham


 * George Mac Donald


 * Edward, Earl of Lytton


 * Arthur Hugh Clough


 * Matthew Arnold


 * George Meredith


 * Alexander Smith


 * Charles Dickens


 * Thomas Edward Brown


 * James Thomson (B.V.)


 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti


 * Christina Georgina Rossetti


 * William Morris


 * John Boyle O'Reilly


 * Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy


 * Robert Williams Buchanan


 * Algernon Charles Swinburne


 * William Ernest Henly


 * Robert Luis Stevenson


 * William Cullen Bryant


 * Edgar Allen Poe


 * Ralph Waldo Emerson


 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


 * John Greenleaf Wittier


 * Oliver Wendell Holmes


 * James Russell Lowell


 * Sidney Lanier


 * Bret Harte


 * Walt Whitman

Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

 * Introductory Note
 * "The Voyages to Vinland" (c. 1000)
 * "The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery" (1493)
 * "Amerigo Vespucci’s Account of His First Voyage" (1497)
 * "John Cabot’s Discovery of North America" (1497)
 * "First Charter of Virginia" (1606)
 * "The Mayflower Compact" (1620)
 * "The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" (1639)
 * "The Massachusetts Body of Liberties" (1641)
 * "Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion", by John Winthrop (1644)
 * "The Instrument of Government" (1653)
 * "A Healing Question", by Sir Henry Vane" (1656)
 * "John Eliot’s "Brief Narrative" (1670)
 * "Declaration of Rights" (1765)
 * "The Declaration of Independence" (1776)
 * "The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" (1775)
 * "Articles of Confederation" (1777)
 * "Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown" (1781)
 * "Treaty with Great Britain" (1783)
 * "Constitution of the United States" (1787)
 * "The Federalist", Nos. 1 and 2 (1787)
 * "Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the Case of McCulloch vs. the State of Maryland" (1819)
 * "Washington’s First Inaugural Address" (1789)
 * "Treaty with the Six Nations" (1794)
 * "Washington’s Farewell Address" (1796)
 * "Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase)" (1803)
 * "Treaty with Great Britain (End of War of 1812)" (1814)
 * "Arrangement as to the Naval Force to Be Respectively Maintained on the American Lakes" (1817)
 * "Treaty with Spain (Acquisition of Florida)" (1819)
 * "The Monroe Doctrine" (1823)
 * "Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain" (1842)
 * "Treaty with Mexico (1848)
 * "Fugitive Slave Act" (1850)
 * "Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address" (1861)
 * "Emancipation Proclamation" (1863)
 * "Haskell’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg"
 * "Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address" (1863)
 * "Proclamation of Amnesty" (1863)
 * "Lincoln’s Letter to Mrs. Bixby" (1864)
 * "Terms of Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox" (1865)
 * "Lee’s Farewell to His Army" (1865)
 * "Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address" (1865)
 * "Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End" (1866)
 * "Treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase)" (1867)
 * "Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands" (1898)
 * "Recognition of the Independence of Cuba" (1898)
 * "Treaty with Spain (Cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines)" (1898)
 * "Convention Between the United States and the Republic of Panama" (1904)

Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS: VOLUME I
Confucian
 * The Sayings of Confucius

Hebrew
 * The Book of Job
 * The Book of Psalms
 * Ecclesiastes; Or, The Preacher

Christian, (Part I)
 * The Gospel According to Luke
 * The Acts of the Apostles

Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS: VOLUME II
Christian, (Part II)

• The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians

• The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians

• Hymns of the Christian Church
 * Hymns based on Psalms
 * Psalms XIX
 * Psalms XXIII
 * Psalms LXXII
 * Psalms XC
 * Psalms C
 * Psalms CIV
 * Greek hymns
 * Gloria in Excelsis—Shepherd of Tender Youth
 * The Day is Past and Over
 * The Day of Resurrection
 * Art Thou Weary?
 * Latin hymns
 * Te Deum Laudamus
 * Veni Creator Spiritus
 * Hie Breve Vivitur
 * Urbs Sion Aurea
 * Jesu, Dulcis Memoria—Jesu, Dulcedo Cordium
 * Dies Iræ, Dies Illa
 * Stabat Mater
 * Adeste Fideles
 * O Deus, Ego Amo Te
 * Modern hymns
 * A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
 * Now Thank We All Our God
 * Be Not Dismayed—In Temptation
 * Christmas Hymn
 * Light Shining out of Darkness
 * The Future Peace and Glory of the Church
 * Early Piety
 * The Holy Trinity
 * Epiphany—Sun of my Soul, Thou Savior Dear
 * Abide with Me
 * Pillar of cloud
 * Nearer, My God, to Thee
 * My Faith Looks Up to Thee
 * A Sun-Day Hymn
 * The Pilgrims of the Night
 * Let There Be Light

Buddhist 1. The Buddha
 * Buddhist Writings, Translated and Annotated by Henry Clarke Warren
 * The story of Sumedha
 * The birth of the Buddha
 * The attainment of Buddhaship
 * First events after the attainment
 * The Buddha's daily habits
 * The death of the Buddha

2. The Doctrine
 * Questions which tend not to edification
 * There is no ego
 * The middle doctrine
 * Karma
 * Fruitful and barren karma
 * Good and bad karma
 * Rebirth is not transmigration
 * Death’s messengers
 * The Devoted Wife
 * The hare-mark in the moon
 * The way of purity
 * Concentration
 * The conversion of animals
 * Love for animals
 * Sariputta and the two demons
 * The summum bonum
 * The Trance of Cessation
 * The attainment of nirvana

3. The Order
 * The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies
 * The Mendicant Ideal
 * “And Hate Not His Father and Mother”
 * The Story of Visakha

Hindu


 * The Bhagavad Gita or Song Celestial, Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold

Mohammedan
 * Chapters from the Koran, Translated and Annotated by E. H. Palmer
 * Mecca Suras
 * Medina Suras

Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1

 * Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe
 * Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and 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, READER'S GUIDE, INDEXES

 * The Editor's Introduction to the Harvard Classics
 * Reader's Guide to the Harvard Classics
 * Class I
 * The History of Civilization
 * Race and Language
 * Ancient Egypt
 * The East in Patriarchal Time
 * Ancient Greece: Legendary
 * Ancient Greece: Historic
 * Ancient Rome: Republican
 * Ancient Rome: Imperial
 * Germanic Peoples in Primitive Times
 * Ireland in Primitive Times
 * The Early Christian Church
 * The Mohammedan East
 * The Middle Ages
 * The Renaissance
 * Modern Europe
 * America
 * Religion and Philosophy
 * Hebrew
 * Greek
 * Roman
 * Chinese
 * Hindu
 * Christian: Primitive and Medieval
 * Mohammedan
 * Christian: Modern
 * Modern Philosophers
 * Education
 * Montaigne...Huxley
 * Science
 * Hippocrates...Geikie
 * Politics
 * Plutarch...American Historical Documents
 * Voyages and Travels
 * Herodotus...Emerson
 * Criticism of Literature and the Fine Arts
 * Caxton...Stevenson
 * Class II
 * Drama
 * Greek
 * English
 * Spanish
 * French
 * German
 * Biography and Letters
 * Plutarch...Stevenson
 * Essays
 * Montaigne...Stevenson
 * Narrative Poetry and Prose Fiction
 * Homer...Lanier
 * An Index of the First Lines of Poems, Songs and Choruses, Hymns and Psalms
 * General Index
 * Chronological Index

Vol. 51. LECTURES
The last volume contains sixty lectures introducing and summarizing the covered fields:
 * History
 * "General Introduction", by Robert Matteson Johnston
 * "Ancient History", by William Scott Ferguson
 * "The French Revolution", by Robert Matteson Johnston
 * "The Renaissance", by Murray Anthony Potter
 * "The Territorial Development of the United States", by Fredrick Jackson Turner
 * Poetry
 * "General Introduction", by Carlton Noyes
 * "Homer and the Epic", by Charles Burton Gulick
 * "Dante", by Charles Hall Grandgent
 * "The Poems of John Milton", by Ernest Bernbaum
 * "The English Anthology", by Carleton Noyes
 * Natural Science
 * "General Introduction", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson
 * "Astronomy", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson
 * "Physics and Chemistry", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson
 * "The Biological Sciences", by Lawrence Joseph Henderson
 * "Kelvin on 'Light' and 'The Tides'", by William Morris Davis
 * Philosophy
 * "General Introduction", by Ralph Barton Perry
 * "Socrates, Plato, and the Roman Stoics", by Charles Pomeroy Parker
 * "The Rise of Modern Philosophy", by Ralph Barton Perry
 * "Introduction to Kant", by Ralph Barton Perry
 * "Emerson", by Chester Noyes Greenough
 * Biography
 * "General Introduction", William Roscoe Thayer,
 * "Plutarch", by William Scott Ferguson,
 * "Benvenuto Cellini", by Chandler Rathfon Post
 * "Franklin and Woolman", by Chester Noyes Greenough
 * "John Stuart Mill", by Oliver Mitchell Wentworth
 * Prose Fiction
 * "General Introduction" by William Allan Neilson,
 * "Popular Prose Fiction" by Fred Norris Robinson,
 * "Malory", by Gustavus Howard Maynadier
 * "Cervantes", by Jeremiah D. M. Ford
 * "Manzoni" by Jeremiah D. M. Ford
 * Criticism and the Essay
 * "General Introduction", by Bliss Perry
 * "What the Middle Ages Read", by William Allan Neilson
 * "Theories of Poetry", by Bliss Perry
 * "Æsthetic Criticism in Germany", by William Guild Howard
 * "The Composition of a Criticism", by Ernest Bernbaum
 * Education
 * "General Introduction", by Henry Wyman Holmes
 * "Francis Bacon", by Ernest Bernbaum
 * "Locke and Milton", by Henry Wyman Holmes
 * "Carlyle and Newman", by Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey
 * "Huxley on Science and Culture", by A. O. Norton
 * Political Science
 * "General Introduction", by Thomas Nixon Carver
 * "Theories of Government in the Renaissance", by O. M. W. Sprague
 * "Adam Smith and 'The Wealth of Nations'", by Charles J. Bullock
 * "The Growth of the American Constitution" by William Bennett Munro
 * "Law and Liberty", by Roscoe Pound
 * Drama
 * "General Introduction", by George Pierce Baker
 * "Greek Tragedy", by Charles Burton Gulick
 * "The Elizabethan Drama", by William Allan Neilson
 * "The Faust Legend", by Kuno Francke
 * "Modern English Drama", by Ernest Bernbaum
 * Voyages and Travel
 * "General Introduction", by Roland Burrage Dixon
 * "Herodotus on Egypt", by George H. Chase
 * "The Elizabethan Adventurers", by William Allan Neilson
 * "The Era of Discovery", by William Bennett Monro
 * "Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle", by George Howard Parker
 * Religion
 * "General Introduction", by Ralph Barton Perry
 * "Buddhism", by Charles Rockwell Lanman
 * "Confucianism", by Dwight Sheffield
 * "Greek Religion", by Clifford Herschel Moore
 * "Pascal", by Charles Henry Conrad Wright

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction was selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD (1834-1926), with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. It also features an index to Criticisms and Interpretations.




 * Vol. 1. HENRY FIELDING 1
 * The History of Tom Jones, part 1, by Henry Fielding
 * Vol. 2. HENRY FIELDING 2
 * The History of Tom Jones, part 2, by Henry Fielding
 * Vol. 3. LAURENCE STERN, JANE AUSTEN
 * A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne
 * Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
 * Vol. 4. SIR WALTER SCOTT
 * Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott
 * Vol. 5. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1
 * Vanity Fair, part 1, by William Makepeace Thackeray
 * Vol. 6. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 2
 * Vanity Fair, part 2, by William Makepeace Thackeray
 * Vol. 7. CHARLES DICKENS 1
 * David Copperfield, part 1, by Charles Dickens
 * Vol. 8. CHARLES DICKENS 2
 * David Copperfield, part 2, by Charles Dickens
 * Vol. 9. GEORGE ELIOT
 * The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
 * Vol. 10. HAWTHORNE, IRVING, POE, BRET HARTE, MARK TWAIN, HALE
 * The Scarlet Letter and "Rappaccini's Daughter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", by Washington Irving
 * "Eleonora", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Purloined Letter", by Edgar Allan Poe
 * "The Luck of Roaring Camp", "The Outcasts of Poker Flat", and "The Idyl of Red Gulch", by Francis Bret Harte
 * "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog", by Samuel L. Clemens
 * "The Man Without a Country", by Edward Everett Hale
 * Vol. 11. HENRY JAMES, JR.
 * The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
 * Vol. 12. VICTOR HUGO
 * Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo
 * Vol. 13. BALZAC, SAND, DE MUSSET, DAUDET, DE MAUPASSANT
 * Old Goriot, by Honoré Balzac
 * The Devil's Pool, by George Sand
 * The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset
 * "The Siege of Berlin", "The Last Class—The Story of a Little Alsatian", "The Child Spy", "The Game of Billiards", and "The Bad Zouave", by Alphonse Daudet
 * "Walter Schnaffs’ Adventure" and "Two Friends", by Guy de Maupassant
 * Vol. 14. JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE
 * Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
 * Vol. 15. GOETHE, KELLER, STORM, FONTANE
 * The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
 * The Banner of the Upright Seven, by Gottfried Keller
 * The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm
 * Trials and Tribulations, by Theodor Fontane
 * Vol. 16. LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY 1
 * Anna Karenina, part 1, by Leo Tolstoy
 * Vol. 17. LEO NIKOLAEVITCH TOLSTOY 2
 * Anna Karenina, part 2, and Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy
 * Vol. 18. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
 * Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * Vol. 19. IVAN TURGENEV
 * A House of Gentlefolk and Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev
 * Vol. 20. VALERA, BJØRNSON, KIELLAND
 * Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera
 * A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
 * Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland

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