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The Harvard Classics
26 books, 2,723,323 words, in reading order.
Books in this course
181.6 h read
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Franklin, Benjamin
1790
Apology
Plato
-348
The Enchiridion
Epictetus
135
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
180 AD
Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
Bacon, Francis
1626
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1882
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Burns, Robert
1796
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo
397 AD
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
1776
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Darwin, Charles
1882
The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
1616
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
1678
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
c. 600 BC
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
1875
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno
Dante Alighieri
1321
The Odyssey
Homer
c. 725 BC
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
1790
Candide
Voltaire
1778
Idylls of the King
Alfred Lord Tennyson
1859
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
1855
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
1788
The Koran
Anonymous
c. 650
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus: From the Quarto of 1604
Marlowe, Christopher
1593
Beowulf
Anonymous
c. 1000
The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga)
Anonymous
c. 1250
The Song of Roland
Anonymous
c. 1100