Lists of Bests: Harvard Classics

Franklin: The Autobiography (Vintage)

by Benjamin Franklin

The Journal of John Woolman and His Death

by John Woolman

Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life

by William Penn

Plato: Apology

by Plato

Phaedo

by Plato

Crito

by Plato

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

by Epictetus

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

by Marcus Aurelius

Essays, Civil and Moral; New Atlantis; Areopagitica; Tractate on Education; Religio Medici (Harvard Classics, Part 3)

by Francis Bacon

Complete Poems of John Milton (Harvard Classics, Part 4)

by John Milton

Essays and English Traits (Harvard Classics, Part 5)

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

by Robert Burns

The Confessions of St. Augustine & The Imitation of Christ (The Harvard Classics, Volume 7)

by Thomas A. Kempis

Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes (Harvard Classics, Part 8)

by Aeschylus

Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero and Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Harvard Classics, Part 9)

by Cicero

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Harvard Classics, Part 10)

by Adam Smith

Origin of Species (Harvard Classics, Part 11)

by Charles Darwin

Plutarch's Lives (Harvard Classics, Part 12)

by Plutarch

Virgil's Aeneid (Harvard Classics, Part 13)

by Virgil

Don Quixote of the Mancha (Harvard Classics, Part 14)

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan; The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert by Izaak Walton (The Harvard Classics, 15)

by John Bunyan

Stories from the Thousand and One Nights(The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) (Harvard Classics, 16)

Folklore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (Harvard Classics, Part 17)

by Aesop

Modern English Drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron (Harvard Classics, Part 18)

by Dryden

Faust; Egmont; Hermann and Dorothea (Harvard Classics, Part 19)

by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (Harvard Classics, Part 20)

by Dante Alighieri

I Promessi Sposi, The Betrothed (Harvard Classics, Part 21)

by Alessandro Manzoni

The Odyssey of Homer (Harvard Classics, Part 22)

by Homer

Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After (Harvard Classics, Part 23)

by Richard Henry Dana

Edmund Burke (Harvard Classics, Part 24)

by Edmund Burke

John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle (Harvard Classics, Part 25)

by John Stuart Mill

Continental Drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lessing, Schiller (Harvard Classics, Part 26)

by Moliere

English Essays From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay (Harvard Classics, Part 27)

Essays English and American (Harvard Classics, Part 28)

Voyage of the Beagle (Harvard Classics, Part 29)

by Charles Darwin

Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology (Harvard Classics, Part 30)

by Michael Faraday

The Auobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (The Harvard Classics, 31)

by Benvenuto Cellini

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian (Harvard Classics, Part 32)

by Montaigne

Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern (Harvard Classics, Part 33)

French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes (Harvard Classics, Part 34)

by Rene Descartes

Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (Harvard Classics, Part 35)

by Froissart

The Prince; Utopia; Ninety-Five Theses: Address to the German Nobility Concerning Christian Liberty (Harvard Classics, Part 36)

by Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther Niccolo Machiavelli

English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Locke, Berkeley, Hume (Harvard Classics, Part 37)

by John Locke

Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology (Harvard Classics, Part 38)

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books (Harvard Classics, Part 39)

English Poetry From Chaucer to Gray (Harvard Classics, Part 40)

English Poetry From Collins to Fitzgerald (Harvard Classics, Part 41)

English Poetry From Tennyson to Whitman (Harvard Classics, Part 42)

American Historical Documents 1000 to 1904 (Harvard Classics, Part 43)

Sacred Writings, Part 1: Confucian, Hebrew, Christian (Harvard Classics, Part 44)

by Charles W. Eliot