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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 Thomas Hobbes

by Niccolò Machiavelli

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Walter Scott

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Plato

by David Hume

by Walter Scott

by Dante Alighieri

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by John Milton

by Homer

by à Kempis Thomas

by Plato

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

by Saint of Hippo Augustine

by Honoré de Balzac

by Aristophanes

by Various Authors

by Charles Darwin

by Christopher Marlowe

by Richard Henry Dana

by Henry Fielding

by Plutarch

by Blaise Pascal

by Virgil

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by René Descartes

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by René Descartes

by John Bunyan

by Euripides

by Dante Alighieri

by George Sand

by Laurence Sterne

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Plato

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Aeschylus

by Friedrich Schiller

by Robert Browning

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Virgil

by Benjamin Franklin

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Benjamin Franklin

by Washington Irving

by Robert Burns

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Francis Bacon

by Victor Hugo

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by Victor Hugo

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by Oliver Goldsmith
![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 Aeschylus, Sophocles

by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher
by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by John Milton

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

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Molière

by Edmund Burke

by Juan Valera

by Walter Scott

by Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens

by Virgil

by Charles Darwin

by Walter Scott

by Saint Thomas More

by Francis Bacon

by John Dryden

by Plutarch

by Jean Racine

by Anonymous

by Christopher Marlowe

by Charles Dickens

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Anonymous