The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection (71 Vols.)

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The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection (71 Vols.)

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When Charles William Eliot assembled The Harvard Classics, more commonly known as “The Five-Foot Shelf,” and later the "Shelf of Fiction", he gathered this epic collection of key works which he thought would best represent “the progress of man… from the earliest historical times to the close of the nineteenth century.”

A Portable University; Not a Museum Display

In his introduction to The Harvard Classics, Eliot likens the collection to a portable university. He does not intend it to resemble a museum display-case of the world’s best books. The volumes are not numbered in any particular order, although Eliot suggested that they be approached as a set of six courses:

The History of Civilization
Religion and Philosophy
Education
Science
Politics
Criticism of Literature and the Fine Arts

However, of all the lessons to be learned, the most profound might be “Progress”—progress in each area of Western culture, and perhaps even more, progress in the moral quality of humanity as a whole. Despite our irregular climb from barbarism to civilization, Eliot had complete faith in “the upward tendency of the human race.” His optimism in the progress of humanity informed and influenced the scope of this collection—no aspect of the humanities is left untouched.

A Monument from a More Humane and Confident Time

Famed author Virginia Woolf wrote, “On or about December, 1910, human character changed,” referring not to a specific event, but to a new cultural climate, one that became known as modernism. The rise of modernism prompted Dr. Eliot to create a separate 20-volume collection of fiction to supplement his first collection of classics. These two collections come together to create The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection (71 volumes).

This massive collection represents a cross section of the literary forces which effectively shaped our society. Universally regarded as one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time, these books cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century. From “The Five-Foot Shelf” come the writings of Plato, John Milton, Plutarch, Augustine, Dante, More, Luther, Pasteur, Pascal, and others. Volume 51 contains 60 lectures, introducing and summarizing the fields of religion, history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, voyages and travel. The “Shelf of Fiction” contributes the works of authors like Fielding, Dickens, Poe, Hugo, Tolstoy, Austen, and Dostoyevsky. In all, The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection totals over 33,000 pages of the most notable writings of all time.

God’s Gift in the Works of Men

God reveals himself through history and literature—through the thoughts of philosophers, the characters of great fiction, and the cadences of poetic verse. These classics are vital tools for study and ministry, because they cultivate the life of the mind and reveal the intricacies of human nature.

This immense Logos Bible Software Library collection is like commentary on our society during a most formative period of literary history. Among the titles in The Harvard Classics of particular interest to Libronix users are:

The Confessions of St. Augustine
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis
The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper
Hebrew: Job, Psalms, Ecclesiastes
Christian I: Luke, Acts
Christian II: Corinthians I, II and Hymns
Thoughts, Letters, Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal
The Ninety-Five Theses, Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther
The Journal of John Woolman
Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn

Authors in the Harvard Classics

Benjamin Franklin
John Woolman
William Penn
Plato
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius
Francis Bacon
John Milton
Sir Thomas Browne
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Burns
St. Augustine
Thomas á Kempis
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Cicero
Pliny the Younger
Adam Smith

Charles Darwin
Plutarch
Virgil
Miguel de Cervantes
John Bunyan
Izaak Walton
Aesop
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Hans Christian Andersen
John Dryden
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Oliver Goldsmith
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Browning
Lord Byron
J.W. von Goethe
Christopher Marlowe
Jean Racine
Dante Alighieri
Alessandro Manzoni

Homer
Richard Henry Dana
Edmund Burke
John Stuart Mill
Thomas Carlyle
Molière
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Pierre Corneille
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Friedrich von Schiller
Benvenuto Cellini
René Descartes
Voltaire
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
Jean Froissart
Sir Thomas Malory
William Harrison
Niccolò Machiavelli
William Roper

Sir Thomas More
Martin Luther
John Locke
George Berkeley
David Hume
Ambroise Paré
William Harvey
Edward Jenner
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Joseph Lister
Louis Pasteur
Charles Lyell
Chaucer
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Walt Whitman
William Shakespeare
Thomas Dekker
Ben Jonson
John Webster
Philip Massinger
Blaise Pascal

The Harvard Classics

Vol. 1: Franklin, Woolman, Penn

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Journal of John Woolman
Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
419 pages

Vol. 2: Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius

The Apology, Phædo and Crito, by Plato
The Golden Sayings, by Epictetus
The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
355 pages

Vol. 3: Bacon, Milton’s Prose, Thos. Brown

Essays: Civil and Moral, The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
Areopagitica, Tractate of Education, by John Milton
Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne
350 pages

Vol. 4: Complete Poems in English, Milton

The Complete Poems of John Milton
466 pages

Vol. 5: Essays and English Traits, Emerson

Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
496 pages

Vol. 6: Poems and Songs, Burns

The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
612 pages

Vol. 7: Confessions of St. Augustine, Imitation of Christ

The Confessions of St. Augustine
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis
384 pages

Vol. 8: Nine Greek Dramas

Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies, Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus
Oedipus the King, Antigone, by Sophocles
Hippolytus, The Bacchæ, by Euripides
The Frogs, by Aristophanes
469 pages

Vol. 9: Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

On Friendship, On Old Age, Letters, by Cicero
Letters, by Pliny the Younger
441 pages

Vol. 10: Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
593 pages

Vol. 11: Origin of Species, Darwin

The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
556 pages

Vol. 12: Plutarch’s Lives

Of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, Coriolanus, Demosthenes, Cicero, Caesar, Antony
406 pages

Vol. 13: Aeneid, Virgil

Virgil’s Aeneid
435 pages

Vol. 14: Don Quixote, Part 1, Cervantes

The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote of the Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes (Charles W. Eliot chose not to include the second part of Don Quixote in the Harvard Fiction collection)
548 pages

Vol. 15: Pilgrim’s Progress, Donne & Herbert, Bunyan, Walton

The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
The Lives of John Donne and George Herbert, by Izaak Walton
427 pages

Vol. 16: The Thousand and One Nights

Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
463 pages

Vol. 17: Folklore and Fable, Aesop, Grimm, Anderson

Aesop’s Fables
Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen
386 pages

Vol. 18: Modern English Drama

All for Love, by John Dryden
The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith
The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, by Robert Browning
Manfred, by Lord Byron
444 pages

Vol. 19: Faust, Egmont, etc. Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Marlowe

Faust, Part I, Egmont, Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe
Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
434 pages

Vol. 20: The Divine Comedy, Dante

The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
432 pages

Vol. 21: I Promessi Sposi

I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni
671 pages

Vol. 22: The Odyssey, Homer

The Odyssey of Homer
350 pages

Vol. 23: Two Years Before the Mast, Dana

Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
427 pages

Vol. 24: On the Sublime, French Revolution, Etc., Burke

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

Vol. 25: Autobiography, etc., Essays and Addresses, J.S. Mill, T. Carlyle

Autobiography, Essay on Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, Essay on Scott, by Thomas Carlyle
471 pages

Vol. 26: Continental Drama

Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille
Phèdre, by Jean Racine
Tartuffe, by Molière
Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller
474 pages

Vol. 27: English Essays: Sidney to MacAulay

424 pages

Vol. 28: Essays: English and American

488 pages

Vol. 29: Voyage of the Beagle, Darwin

The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
550 pages

Vol. 30: Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, etc.

Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology
370 pages

Vol. 31: Autobiography, Benvenuto Cellini

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
457 pages

Vol. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays

Montaigne, Sainte-beuve, Renan, etc.
422 pages

Vol. 33: Voyages and Travels

Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern
397 pages

Vol. 34: French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes

Discourse on Method, by René Descartes
Letters on the English, by Voltaire
On the Inequality among Mankind, Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
437 pages

Vol. 35: Chronicle and Romance, Froissart, Malory, Holinshead

Chronicles, by Jean Froissart
The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory
A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison
407 pages

Vol. 36: Machiavelli, More, Luther

The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
The Ninety-Five Theses, Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther
400 pages

Vol. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume

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
448 pages

Vol. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur

The Oath of 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 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
443 pages

Vol. 39: Famous Prefaces

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
465 pages

Vol. 40: English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray

476 pages

Vol. 41: English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald

511 pages

Vol. 42: English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman

519 pages

Vol. 43: American Historical Documents

American Historical Documents: 1000-1904
494 pages

Vol. 44: Sacred Writings 1

Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius
Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes
Christian I: Luke & Acts
495 pages

Vol. 45: Sacred Writings 2

Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns
Buddhist: Writings
Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita
Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran
524 pages

Vol. 46: Elizabethan Drama 1

Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
442 pages

Vol. 47: Elizabethan Drama 2

The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker
The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher
The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster
A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger
456 pages

Vol. 48: Thoughts and Minor Works, Pascal

Thoughts, Letters, Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal
454 pages

Vol. 49: Epic and Saga

Beowulf
The Song of Roland
The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel
The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
467 pages

Vol. 50: Introduction, Reader’s Guide, Indexes

478 pages

Vol. 51: Lectures

493 pages

Authors in the Shelf of Fiction

Henry Fielding
Laurence Sterne
Jane Austen
Sir Walter Scott
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens
George Eliot

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving
Edgar Allan Poe
Francis Bret Harte
Samuel L. Clemens
Edward Everett Hale
Henry James

Victor Hugo
Honoré de Balzac
George Sand
Alfred de Musset
Alphonse Daudet
Guy de Maupassant
J. W. von Goethe
Gottfried Keller

Theodor Storm
Theodor Fontane
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ivan Turgenev
Juan Valera
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Alexander L. Kielland

The Shelf of Fiction

Vols. 1 & 2

The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
1,051 pages

Vol. 3

A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
522 pages

Vol. 4

Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott
516 pages

Vol. 5 & 6

Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
855 pages

Vols. 7 & 8

David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
1,000 pages

Vol. 9

The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
388 pages

Vol. 10

The Scarlet Letter, Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
Three Short Stories, by Edgar Allan Poe
Three Short Stories, by Francis Bret Harte
Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog, by Samuel L. Clemens
The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale
492 pages

Vol. 11

The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
649 pages

Vol. 12

Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Hugo
550 pages

Vol. 13

Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac
The Devil's Pool, by George Sand
The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset
Five Short Stories, by Alphonse Daudet
Two Short Stories, by Guy de Maupassant
520 pages

Vol. 14

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, by J. W. von Goethe
620 pages

Vol. 15

The Sorrows of Werther, by J. W. von 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
474 pages

Vols. 16 & 17

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy
1,139 pages

Vol. 18

Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
580 pages

Vol. 19

A House of Gentlefolk, Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev
429 pages

Vol. 20

Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera
A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland
462 pages

About Charles W. Eliot

Charles Eliot (1834-1926) was selected as Harvard’s president in 1869 and served the longest term as president in the university’s history. He graduated from Harvard in 1853 and was appointed Tutor in Mathematics there in the fall of 1854. In 1858 he was promoted to Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Chemistry, but the coveted appointment to the Rumford Professorship of Chemistry eluded him. Eliot left Harvard in 1863 and, instead of going into business or finding another teaching position, traveled in Europe for nearly two years, studying the educational systems of the Old World. He took an interest in every aspect of institutional operation, from curriculum and methods of instruction through physical arrangements and custodial services. But his particular concern was with the relation between education and economic growth. During this time abroad, Eliot was offered and declined a superintendent position at the Merrimack Company, one of the largest textile mills in the United States.

Returning home in 1865, Eliot accepted an appointment as Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the newly-founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published his ideas about reforming American higher education in a compelling two-part article in The Atlantic Monthly, the nation's leading journal of opinion. Harvard had found itself in a crisis of short-term presidents and languishing curriculum, so it turned to Charles W. Eliot. Under his leadership, Harvard began to expand the range of courses offered, permitting undergraduates with unrestricted choice in selecting their courses of study. This enabled them to discover their "natural bents" and pursue them into specialized studies. The university soon became a center for advanced scientific and technological research. During his forty year presidency, the university extended its facilities with laboratories, libraries, classrooms, and athletic facilities. Eliot was able to attract the support of major donors from among the nation's growing plutocracy, making it the wealthiest private university in the world.

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