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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 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Plato

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Walter Scott

by David Hume

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by John Milton

by Dante Alighieri

by Homer

by à Kempis Thomas

by Dante Alighieri

by Plutarch

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

by Richard Henry Dana

by Plato

by Aristophanes

by Henry Fielding

by Christopher Marlowe

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Honoré de Balzac

by Saint of Hippo Augustine

by Charles Darwin

by John Bunyan

by Blaise Pascal

by René Descartes

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by George Sand

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Friedrich Schiller

by Dante Alighieri

by Euripides

by Plato

by Virgil

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by René Descartes

by Robert Browning

by Washington Irving

by Virgil

by Benjamin Franklin

by Virgil

by Aeschylus

by Oliver Goldsmith

by John Milton

by Laurence Sterne

by Walter Scott

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Victor Hugo

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

by Benjamin Franklin

by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Francis Bacon
![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 Walter Scott

by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Charles Dickens
by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by Charles Dickens

by Francis Bacon

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by Edmund Burke

by Molière

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Robert Burns

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

by Juan Valera

by Charles Darwin

by Plutarch

by Anonymous

by Charles Dickens

by Victor Hugo

by Saint Thomas More

by Anonymous

by Christopher Marlowe

by John Dryden

by Jean Racine

by Marcus Tullius Cicero

by Henry James

by Plutarch