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Step into a library where empires rise, souls are tested, and ideas that shaped civilization clash in the dark. Here, epic voyages, dangerous ambition, devastating passion, and razor-sharp philosophy unfold side by side, from ancient heroes to tormented modern minds. The Harvard Classics bookshelf is a grand stage of the world’s most enduring dramas—timeless, formidable, and impossible to ignore.

by Jane Austen

by Walter Scott

by Niccolò Machiavelli

by Thomas Hobbes

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Walter Scott

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by David Hume

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Plato

by Walter Scott

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by John Milton

by Dante Alighieri

by Plato

by Dante Alighieri

by à Kempis Thomas

by Homer

by Plutarch

by Aristophanes

by Various Authors

by Richard Henry Dana

by Honoré de Balzac

by Henry Fielding
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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Charles Darwin

by Christopher Marlowe

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Saint of Hippo Augustine

by Blaise Pascal

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by John Bunyan

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Dante Alighieri

by René Descartes

by Euripides

by George Sand

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Friedrich Schiller

by Robert Browning

by Washington Irving

by Virgil

by Plato

by Benjamin Franklin

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Virgil

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Aeschylus

by René Descartes

by Laurence Sterne

by Aeschylus, Sophocles

by Walter Scott

by Benjamin Franklin

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Francis Bacon

by Oliver Goldsmith

by Victor Hugo
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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

by Virgil

by Robert Burns

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by John Milton

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Walter Scott

by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

by Francis Bacon

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by Michel de Montaigne, Immanuel Kant, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Giuseppe Mazzini, Ernest Renan, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Friedrich Schiller

by Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens

by Molière

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Saint Thomas More

by Edmund Burke
by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Plutarch

by Charles Darwin

by John Dryden

by Juan Valera

by Anonymous

by Victor Hugo

by Charles Dickens

by Christopher Marlowe

by Jean Racine

by Marcus Tullius Cicero