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Harvard Classics Complete Set 51 Volumes First Edition (The Five Foot Shelf Of Books)

The volumes

(1) Franklin, Woolman, Penn
(2) Plato, Epictetus, Marcus, Aurelius
(3) Bacon, Milton’s Prose, Thomas Browne
(4) Complete Poems in Milton
(5) Essays and English Emerson
(6) Poems and Burns
(7) Confessions of St. Augustine. Imitation of Christ
(8) Nine Greek Dramas
(9) Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny
(10) Wealth of Adam Smith
(11) Origin of Darwin
(12) Plutarch’s Lives
(13) Aeneid Virgil
(14) Don Quixote Part 1: Cervantes
(15)Pilgrim’s Progress. Donne and Herbert. Bunyan, Walton
(16) The Thousand and One Nights
(17) Folk-Lore and Fable. Aesop, Grimm, Andersen
(18) Modern English Drama
(19) Faust, Egmont Etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe
(20) The Divine Dante
(21) I Promessi Sposi, Manzoni
(22) The Homer
(23) Two Years Before the Mast. Dana
(24) On the Sublime French Revolution Etc. Burke
(25) Autobiography Etc. Essays and J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle
(26) Continental Drama
(27) English Sidney to Macaulay
(28) Essays. English and American
(29) Voyage of the Darwin
(30) Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Geikie
(31) Benvenuto, Cellini
(32) Literary and Philosophical Montaigne, Sainte Beuve, Renan, Lessing, Schiller, Kant, Mazzini
(33) Voyages and Travels
(34) Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes
(35) Chronicle and Froissart, Malory, Holinshed
(36) Machiavelli, More, Luther
(37) Locke, Berkeley, Hume
(38) Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
(39) Famous Prefaces
(40) English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray
(41) English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald
(42) English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman
(43) American Historical Documents
(44) Sacred Writings 1
(45) Sacred Writings 2
(46) Elizabethan Drama 1
(47) Elizabethan Drama 2
(48) Thoughts and Minor Pascal
(49) Epic and Saga
(50) Introduction, Readers Guide, Indexes
(51) Lectures.

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction is a supplement of 20 volumes of modern fiction added in 1917.

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