The Harvard Shelf of Classics
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Thomas Carlyle, Theodor Storm, Plato, Theodor Fontane, René Descartes, Gottfried Keller, Mark Twain, Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Samuel Johnson, Victor Hugo, David Hume, Joseph Addison, Jane Austen, John Locke, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, Henry Fielding, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, Bret Harte, George Sand, John Ruskin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ernest Renan, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Webster, Washington Irving, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, Juan Valera, James Russell Lowell, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Michael Faraday, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Everett Hale, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Voltaire, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Aristophanes, Blaise Pascal, Virgil, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 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, Ivan Turgenev, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Archibald Geikie, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tacitus, William Roper, Hippocrates, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Nichols, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pliny the Younger, Charles W. Eliot, Edgar Alan Poe, Saint Augustine, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Francis Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolò Machiavelli, Ambroise Pare, William A. Neilson, Honoré Balzac, Alexander L. Kielland, John Stuart Mühle, Thomas De Quincey, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Alfred de Musset, Franz Bacon, Miguel de Cervantes & Thomas Mehr
- Release Date: 2019-07-27
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
The Harvard Shelf of Classics is a curated anthology that traverses the expansive terrains of literary, philosophical, and scientific thought. Encompassing a dazzling array of themes, this collection invites readers to engage with the very fabric of human creativity and intellectual evolution. From the stirring dramas of Sophocles to the philosophical musings of Descartes, and the revolutionary theories of Darwin, this compilation showcases an impressive spectrum of literary styles and genres. Each selected piece stands as a testament to the enduring power of the written word, capturing the essence of different eras, cultures, and ideologies. The authors gathered in this anthology represent some of history's most influential figures, each contributing their unique voice and perspective to this enduring collection. With luminaries ranging from Goethe and Shakespeare to Austen and Dostoevsky, the Harvard Shelf of Classics aligns itself with historically significant movements and thought-provoking cultural dialogues. The diverse backgrounds of these authors underscore a rich tapestry of intellectual discourse, reflecting the complexities and variegated facets of the human condition. This anthology not only celebrates their individual contributions but also demonstrates the interconnectedness of their ideas across time and geography. Readers seeking a profound journey through the corridors of classic literature will find in this anthology an invaluable resource. The Harvard Shelf of Classics offers a rare opportunity to delve into a multiplicity of perspectives, engaging with timeless themes and revolutionary ideas that continue to resonate today. This collection holds educational and philosophical wealth, inviting dialogue not only among the works presented but also between the reader and the broader literary canvas it unveils. Whether pursued for scholarly inquiry or personal enrichment, this volume promises to enlighten and inspire all who venture into its pages.
