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Autobiography & ethics
Franklin, Woolman & Penn
Autobiography, spiritual journals, and reflections on the conduct of life.
A library of enduring ideas
Autobiography, literature, philosophy, and the discoveries that changed our understanding of the world.
Selected volumes from The Harvard Classics
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Philosophy
Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius
Dialogues of Socrates, the sayings of Epictetus, and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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Essays & philosophy
Essays, Civil and Moral
Essays and The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Of Education by John Milton; and Religio Medici by Thomas Browne.
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Poetry
The Complete Poems of John Milton
Short poems, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
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Essays
Essays and English Traits
Selected essays from Emerson’s First and Second Series, together with English Traits.
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Poetry & songs
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Poems, songs, epistles, and verse tales arranged by year.
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Spiritual writings
The Confessions and The Imitation of Christ
Augustine’s spiritual autobiography and Thomas à Kempis’s devotional classic.
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Letters & philosophy
Cicero and Pliny
Cicero’s On Friendship, On Old Age, and letters, followed by selected letters of Pliny the Younger.
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Economics
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith’s landmark inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.
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Natural history
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin’s work on natural selection and the origin of species.
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Fiction
Don Quixote, Part I
The first part of Cervantes’s tale of the ingenious gentleman of La Mancha.
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Allegory & biography
The Pilgrim’s Progress and Lives
John Bunyan’s allegory, followed by Izaak Walton’s lives of English poets and divines.
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Stories & folklore
Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
The Arabian Nights, including Sindbad, Aladdin, and Ali Baba.
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Folk-Lore & fable
Folk-Lore and Fable
Aesop’s fables, Grimm’s household tales, and stories by Hans Christian Andersen.
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Drama & fiction
Goethe and Marlowe
Goethe’s Faust, Egmont, and Hermann and Dorothea, with Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.
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Travel & memoir
Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana’s account of life at sea, followed by Twenty-Four Years After.
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Essays & political thought
Edmund Burke
On Taste, The Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and A Letter to a Noble Lord.
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Autobiography & political thought
John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle
Mill’s Autobiography and On Liberty, with essays and addresses by Carlyle.
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Drama
Continental Drama
Life is a Dream, Polyeucte, Phaedra, Tartuffe, Minna von Barnhelm, and William Tell.
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Essays
English Essays from Sidney to Macaulay
Selected English essays from Sir Philip Sidney through Thomas Babington Macaulay.
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Essays
Essays, English and American
Essays on literature, education, science, and public life by English and American writers.
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Travel & science
The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin’s account of the voyage that helped shape his scientific work.
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Physics & natural science
Scientific Papers
Experiments, discoveries, and lectures on the physical world.
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Autobiography
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Cellini’s account of his life and work, in two books.
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Essays & philosophy
Literary and Philosophical Essays
Essays by Montaigne, Sainte-Beuve, Renan, Lessing, Schiller, Kant, and others in this EPUB.
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Travel writing
Voyages and Travels
Travel writing from Herodotus and Tacitus to early modern explorers.
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Philosophy
French and English Philosophers
Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Hobbes on reason, society, faith, and human nature.
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Chronicle & romance
Chronicle and Romance
Selections from Froissart, Malory’s Holy Grail, and William Harrison’s description of Elizabethan England for Holinshed’s Chronicles.
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Political thought & religion
The Prince, Utopia and Luther’s Writings
Machiavelli’s The Prince, William Roper’s Life of Sir Thomas More, More’s Utopia, and Luther’s reform writings.
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Literary prefaces
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
Prefaces and prologues from Caxton to Taine, including Dryden, Wordsworth, Hugo, and Whitman in this EPUB.
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Poetry
English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray
The first volume of English poetry, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Thomas Gray.
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Poetry
English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald
The second volume of English poetry, from William Collins to Edward FitzGerald.
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Poetry
English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman
The third volume of poetry, from Alfred Tennyson to Walt Whitman.
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American history
American Historical Documents
Primary sources from the Norse voyages through the early twentieth century.
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Sacred writings
Sacred Writings I
The Sayings of Confucius, Job, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Luke, and Acts.
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Sacred writings
Sacred Writings II
The Epistles to the Corinthians, Christian hymns, Buddhist writings, the Bhagavad-Gita, and selections from the Koran.
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Philosophy & religion
Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
Pascal’s Thoughts, letters, and shorter works.
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Epic & saga
Epic and Saga
Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel, The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, and Elder Edda selections.
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Reading guide & indexes
Introduction, Reader's Guide and Indexes
Eliot’s introduction, reading guide, indexes, and selections for young readers.
Companion shelves
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