The Five-Foot Shelf of Books

The Harvard Classics

Fifty volumes in their original order: an invitation to range freely through enduring thought and literature.

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Volume1
Harvard Classic

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Journal of John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume2
Harvard Classic

The Apology, Phædo and Crito; The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume3
Harvard Classic

Essays: Civil and Moral; New Atlantis; Areopagitica; Tractate on Education; Religio Medici

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume7
Harvard Classic

The Confessions of St. Augustine; The Imitation of Christ

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume8
Harvard Classic

Nine Greek Dramas

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume9
Harvard Classic

Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume15
Harvard Classic

Pilgrim’s Progress; The Lives of Donne and Herbert

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume18
Harvard Classic

Modern English Drama

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume19
Harvard Classic

Faust; Egmont; Hermann and Dorothea

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume21
Harvard Classic

I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume23
Harvard Classic

Two Years Before the Mast

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume24
Harvard Classic

On Taste; On the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the French Revolution; A Letter to a Noble Lord

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume25
Harvard Classic

Autobiography; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume26
Harvard Classic

Continental Drama

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume27
Harvard Classic

English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume28
Harvard Classic

Essays: English and American

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume30
Harvard Classic

Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume31
Harvard Classic

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume32
Harvard Classic

Literary and Philosophical Essays

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume33
Harvard Classic

Voyages and Travels

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume34
Harvard Classic

French and English Philosophers

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume35
Harvard Classic

Chronicle and Romance

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume36
Harvard Classic

Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume37
Harvard Classic

Locke, Berkeley, Hume

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume38
Harvard Classic

Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume40
Harvard Classic

English Poetry 1: Chaucer to Gray

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume41
Harvard Classic

English Poetry 2: Collins to Fitzgerald

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume42
Harvard Classic

English Poetry 3: Tennyson to Whitman

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume44
Harvard Classic

Sacred Writings, Volume I

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume45
Harvard Classic

Sacred Writings, Volume II

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume46
Harvard Classic

Elizabethan Drama, Volume I

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume47
Harvard Classic

Elizabethan Drama, Volume II

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume49
Harvard Classic

Epic and Saga

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.

Volume50
Harvard Classic

Introduction, Reader’s Guide, Indexes

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A cornerstone volume in Charles W. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf, presented as a guide to public-domain reading.