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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 Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Walter Scott

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Homer

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Dante Alighieri

by John Milton

by Plato
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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by David Hume

by à Kempis Thomas

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Walter Scott

by Dante Alighieri

by Henry Fielding

by Plato

by Aristophanes

by Saint of Hippo Augustine

by Plutarch

by Charles Darwin

by Honoré de Balzac

by Various Authors

by Virgil

by John Bunyan

by Dante Alighieri

by Blaise Pascal

by Christopher Marlowe

by Richard Henry Dana

by René Descartes
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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Francis Bacon

by Robert Browning

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by Benjamin Franklin

by Robert Burns

by Charles Darwin

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Euripides

by Washington Irving

by René Descartes

by Victor Hugo

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Laurence Sterne

by Benjamin Franklin

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Virgil

by Edmund Burke

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Victor Hugo

by Aeschylus

by George Sand

by Plato

by Friedrich Schiller

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by John Dryden

by Aeschylus, Sophocles

by Virgil

by John Milton

by Walter Scott

by Charles Dickens

by Oliver Goldsmith

by Jean Racine

by Molière

by Juan Valera

by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

by Charles Dickens

by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

by Christopher Marlowe

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

by Charles Dickens

by Saint Thomas More

by Walter Scott

by Plutarch

by Anonymous

by Francis Bacon

by Plutarch

by George Eliot

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Anonymous