Non-fiction Book Series

The Harvard Classics
Title   Call Number

Vol. 1. — The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The journal of John Woolman, Fruits of solitude William Penn

His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin

Journal by John Woolman

Fruits of Solitude by William Penn

  818 AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Vol. 2. — The apology, Phaedo & Crito of Plato

The Apology, Phædo, and Crito by Plato

The Golden Sayings of Epicetus

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

  808.88 APOLOGY

Vol. 3. — Essays, civil and moral…

Essays, Civil and Moral and The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Areopagitica and Tractate on Education by John Milton

Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne

  824 ESSAYS

Vol. 4. — Complete Poems Written in English of John Milton

  821 MILTON

Vol. 5. — Essays and English traits

Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  814 EMERSON

Vol. 6. — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

  828.991 BURNS

Vol. 7. — The Confessions of St. Augustine; The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis

The Confessions of Saint Augustine translated by Edward B. Pusey

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, translated by William Benham

  270.2092 AUGUSTINE

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 Bachae by Euripides

The Frogs by Aristophanes

  882 NINE

Vol. 9. — Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero : with his treatises on friendship and old age…

On Friendship, On Old Age, and Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Letters by Pliny the Younger

  876 LETTERS

Vol. 10. — Wealth of Nations

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations by Adam Smith

  339.4 SMI

Vol. 11. — The origin of the species

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

  576.82 DAR

Vol. 12. — Plutarch's lives : of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Caesar and Antony

  920.71 PLUTARCH

Vol. 13. — Æneid

Æneid by Vergil

  873 VIRGIL

Vol. 14. — Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part 1

Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part 1 by Miguel de Cervantes

  863 CERVANTES

Vol. 15. — The Pilgrim's Progress; The lives of John Donne and George Herbert

The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

The Lives of Donne and Herbert by Izaak Walton

  818 PILGRIM

Vol. 16. — Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

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Vol. 17. — Folk-lore and fable / Aesop; Grimm; Andersen

Fables by Æsop

Household Tales by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm

Tales by Hans Christian Anderson

  398.2 FOL

Vol. 18. — Modern English drama : Dryden, Sheriden, Goldsmith, Shelly, Browning, Byron

All for Love by John Dryden

The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsel Sheridan

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

The Cenci by Percy Bysshe Shelly

A Blot in the ’Scutcheon by Robert Browning

Manfred by Lord Byron

  822 MODERN

Vol. 19. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe…

Faust, Part 1, Egmont, and Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

  832 GOETHE

Vol. 20. — The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri : Hell, Purgatory, Paradise

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

  851 DANTE

Vol. 21. — I Promessi Sposi : (the betrothed)

I Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni

  853 MANZONI

Vol. 22. — The odyssey

The Odessey by Homer

  883 HOMER

Vol. 23. — Two years before the mast : and twenty-four years after

Two Years before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

  910.45 DANA

Vol. 24. — Edmund Burke

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

  824.2 BURKE

Vol. 25. — John Stuart Mill…

Autobiography and On Liberty by John Stuat Mill

Characteristics, Inaugual Address at Edinburgh, and Sir Walter Scott by Thomas Carlyle

  824 JOHN

Vol. 26. — Continental drama

Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Polyeucte by Pierre Corneille

Phædra by Jean Racine

Tartuffe by Molière

Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Wilhelm Tell by Frierich von Schiller

  808.82 CON

Vol. 27. — English Essays : Sidney to Macaulay

  824 ENGLISH

Vol. 28. — Essays : English and American

 

Vol. 29. — The Voyage of the Beagle

The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

  576.82 DAR

Vol. 30. — Scientific Papers : physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology

  500.81 SCI

Vol. 31. — The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

  920 CELLINI

Vol. 32. — Literary and Philosophical Essays; French, German, and Italian

  808.84 LITERARY

Vol. 33. — Voyages and Travels : Ancient and Modern

  910.9 VOYAGES

Vol. 34. — French and English philosohers

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

  190 FRENCH

Vol. 35. — Chronicle and romance

The Chronicles by Jean Froissart

The Holy Grail by Sir Thomas Mallory

A Description of Elizabethan England by William Harrison

  808.88 CHRONICLE

Vol. 36. — The Prince

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper

Utopia by Sir Thomas More

The Ninety-Five Theses, Address to the Christian Nobility, and Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther

  808.88 PRINCE

Vol. 37. — English philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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

  192 ENGLISH

Vol. 38. — Scientific papers; physiology, medicine, surgery, geology

The Oath by 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 the 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

  500.81 SCI

Vol. 39. — Prefaces and prologues to famous books

  808.4 PREFACES

Vol. 40. — English Poetry I : Chaucer to Gray

  821 ENGLISH VOL. 1

Vol. 41. — English Poetry II : Collins to Fitzgerald

  821 ENGLISH VOL. 2

Vol. 42. — English Poetry III : Tennyson to Whitman

  821 ENGLISH VOL. 3

Vol. 43. — American Historical Documents : 1000–1904

  REF 973 AMERICAN

Vol. 44. — Sacred Writings   vol. 1

Confucian : The Sayings of Confucius

Hebrew : Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes

Christian I : Luke and Acts

  291 SACRED v. 1

Vol. 45. — Sacred Writings   vol. 2

Christian II : Corinthians I and II and Hymns

Buddhist : Writings

Hindu : The Bhagavad-Gita

Mohammedan : Chapters from the Koran

  291 SACRED v. 2

Vol. 46. — Elizabethan drama : Vol. 1

Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe

Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

  822.3 ELIZABETHAN Vol. 1

Vol. 47. — Elizabethan drama : Vol. 2

The Shoemaker’s Holiday by Thomas Dekker

The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Philaster by Beuamont and Fletcher

The Dutchess of Malfi by John Webster

A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Philip Massinger

  822.3 ELIZABETHAN Vol. 2

Vol. 48. — Blaise Pascal : Thoughts, letters, minor works

  200 Pascal

Vol. 49. — Epic and Saga

Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Descruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel, and The Story of Volsungs and Niblungs

  808.88 EPIC

Vol. 50. — The Editor's Introduction; Reader's Guide; Index to the First Lines of Poems, Songs & Choruses, Hymns & Psalms; General Index; Chronological Index.

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