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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 Walter Scott

by Jane Austen

by Niccolò Machiavelli

by Thomas Hobbes

by Walter Scott

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Plato

by David Hume

by Walter Scott

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by John Milton

by Dante Alighieri

by Dante Alighieri

by à Kempis Thomas

by Homer

by Various Authors

by Plutarch

by Richard Henry Dana

by Aristophanes

by Henry Fielding

by Christopher Marlowe
![Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres](https://listenly.io/api/img/6637f9d3829d50c265d73a88/cover.jpg)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Charles Darwin

by Plato

by Saint of Hippo Augustine

by Blaise Pascal

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by John Bunyan

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Honoré de Balzac

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Dante Alighieri

by René Descartes

by Euripides

by Friedrich Schiller

by George Sand

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Robert Browning

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Plato

by Virgil

by Aeschylus

by Benjamin Franklin

by Laurence Sterne

by Aeschylus, Sophocles

by Walter Scott

by Benjamin Franklin

by Washington Irving

by Virgil

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by René Descartes

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Oliver Goldsmith

by graf Leo Tolstoy
![Faust: a Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe](https://listenly.io/api/img/6637f9c3829d50c265d73816/cover.jpg)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

by Virgil

by Robert Burns

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Francis Bacon

by Victor Hugo

by John Milton

by Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens

by Walter Scott

by Francis Bacon

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by Edmund Burke

by Molière

by Ralph Waldo Emerson
by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Saint Thomas More

by Plutarch

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

by John Dryden

by Anonymous

by Juan Valera

by Charles Darwin

by Charles Dickens

by Victor Hugo

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Anonymous

by Christopher Marlowe

by Jean Racine

by Plutarch

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe