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The 'Harvard Classics' anthology, spanning 51 volumes, is a monumental testament to a diverse array of literary themes and styles, encapsulating the essence of human thought and creativity. This extensive collection weaves together a tapestry that includes philosophical discourses, epic tales, lyrical poetry, and profound essays, offering readers a comprehensive journey through the annals of literature. It captures standout pieces, from the introspective dialogues of classical philosophers to the vivid storytelling of mythic epics, balancing the revered voices of antiquity with the innovative narratives of the modern age. The contributing authors to this collection are titans of the literary world, representing various epochs, cultures, and intellectual movements. Figures like Plato and Descartes delve into metaphysical inquiries, while Darwin and Hobbes challenge and expand the boundaries of human understanding. This diversity of voices coalesces to form a cohesive exploration of enlightenment and invention, allowing the collection to resonate with the themes of intellectual pursuit and cultural transformation. This anthology invites readers to immerse themselves in an unparalleled exploration of literary wisdom. Whether seeking to broaden one's intellectual horizons or to engage deeply with the insights of the greatest minds, the 'Harvard Classics' offers a singular opportunity to experience a rich dialogue between historical perspectives and modern interpretations within a single, curated volume.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Thomas Carlyle, Plato, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Joseph Addison, John Locke, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, John Ruskin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ernest Renan, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Webster, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, James Russell Lowell, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Michael Faraday, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Voltaire, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Aristophanes, Blaise Pascal, Virgil, Simon Newcomb, William Penn, Walter Bigges, Philip Sidney, Herodotus, Walter Raleigh, Giuseppe Mazzini, Francis Pretty, George Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Alessandro Manzoni, Abraham Cowley, Michel de Montaigne, Ben Jonson, John Woolman, Benvenuto Cellini, Sydney Smith, Jean Froissart, William Henry Harrison, William Harvey, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Thomas Malory, George Gordon Byron, Thomas à Kempis, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Archibald Geikie, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Tacitus, William Roper, Hippocrates, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Nichols, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pliny the Younger, Edgar Alan Poe, Saint Augustine, Brinsley Sheridan, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Francis Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolò Machiavelli, Ambroise Pare, William A. Neilson, Charles W. Eliot, John Stuart Mühle, Thomas De Quincey, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Franz Bacon, Miguel de Cervantes & Thomas Mehr Books