Journey through Harvard University president Charles Eliot’s “five-foot shelf” of classics. This collection, first published in the early 1900s, remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time. Making good on earlier claims that he could fit the elements of a liberal education on a five-foot shelf, Eliot gathered this collection of key works, together with English professor William Neilson—who selected editions and wrote introductions. The massive collection covers major literary figures, philosophers, theologians, folklore, and historical subjects through the end of the nineteenth century. Originally published as a 51-volume collection of classics, the rise of modernism prompted Dr. Eliot to create an additional 20-volume collection of fiction—“The Shelf of Fiction”—to supplement his first collection. These two collections come together to create The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection (71 vols.). Among...

The Verbum 5 Legacy Libraries reintroduce the classic libraries of Verbum 5. This library is offered without features and datasets, making it the perfect standalone collection of resources to help grow your library with practical commentary sets and even includes a few key texts to get you started with basic Greek and Hebrew study.

The Verbum 6 Legacy Libraries reintroduce the classic libraries of Verbum 6. This library is offered without features and datasets, making it the perfect standalone collection of resources to help grow your library with practical commentary sets and even includes a few key texts to get you started with basic Greek and Hebrew study.

Fyodor Dostoevsky was raised in modest nobility and lived lavishly as a military engineer while running in liberal utopian literary circles. He was sentenced to death, pardoned at the last moment, and served four years of Siberian hard labor. He became disillusioned with human nature, gambled himself into poverty, rose to celebrity, and wrote novels that plumb the darkest depths of human psychology with as keen an eye as any author before or since. Collected here are 21 of his novels, novellas, and short stories, including the genre-defining Notes from Underground, the intensely cerebral classic Crime and Punishment, and his epic last novel The Brothers Karamazov.

Dante’s The Divine Comedy is one of the greatest works of world literature—a vivid journey through hell, up the mountain of purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. This epic poem is a masterful allegory, portraying a human soul painfully struggling from sin through purification to the Beatific Vision using the symbolism of the stages and experiences of this journey.

The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 49: Epic and Saga. Contents Thoughts, Letters, Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal Product Details Title: The Harvard Classics, vol. 48: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works Author: Blaise Pascal Editor: Charles William Eliot Series: The Harvard Classics Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son Pages: 454 About Charles William...

The Verbum 5 Legacy Libraries reintroduce the classic libraries of Verbum 5. This library is offered without features and datasets, making it the perfect standalone collection of resources to help grow your library, including advanced reference works and original language materials.

Discover the complete poetic works of the seventeenth-century thinker, writer, and civil servant, John Milton—widely considered one of the greatest English-language authors. Find his famous Paradise Lost, and expand your study of Milton with numerous other enduring poetic works. Arranged chronologically, the text enables you to see Milton’s development as a thinker and artist. The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 5. ...

Journey through the classics on “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. In the second volume of the Harvard Classics you’ll find works of Greek philosophers Plato and Epictetus, and of the Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius.

Harvard Classics and Fiction Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. The massive collection covers major literary figures, philosophers, theologians, folklore, and historical subjects through the end of the nineteenth century. Originally published as a 51-volume collection of classics, the rise of modernism prompted Dr. Eliot to create an additional 20-volume collection of fiction—“The Shelf of Fiction”—to supplement his first collection. These two collections come together to create The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection (71 vols.), which remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics Shelf...

The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 50: Introduction, Reader’s Guide, and Indexes. Contents Beowulf The Song of Roland The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs Certain Songs from the Elder Edda which Deal with the Story of The Volsungs Product Details Title: The Harvard Classics, vol. 49: Epic and Saga Editor: Charles William Eliot ...

Dive into the work of poet and lyricist Robert Burns—a pioneer in the Romantic movement and an immensely popular Scottish figure, now widely regarded as Scotland’s national poet. This Harvard Classics volume contains both his poems and his songs, some written in standard English and most in a Scots dialect. The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 7. Key Features Over 550 pieces from the man...

Explore Circero’s On Friendship and On Old Age—two treatises that exemplify the pragmatism of the great orator, politician, and philosopher’s mind, applied to the human condition. A collection of his letters is also included, offering both personal insight and policy initiative. Examine the Letters of Pliny the Younger as well. Arranged by Pliny himself, this collected correspondence offers a glimpse into the daily life of a Roman patrician. The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and...

Explore Virgil’s great epic poem, The Aeneid: the dramatic story of Aeneas, who traveled to Italy and became an ancestor of the Romans. It was composed between 29 and 19 BCE. The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 14: Don Quixote, part 1. Contents The Aeneid by Virgil Product Details Title: The Harvard Classics, vol. 13: Virgil’s Aeneid Author: Virgil Translator: John Dryden Editor:...

When Charles William Eliot assembled The Harvard Classics—more commonly known as The Five-Foot Shelf and later the Shelf of Fiction—he gathered this epic collection of key works which he thought would best represent “the progress of man… from the earliest historical times to the close of the nineteenth century.”

Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. This collection represents some of the works and authors that influenced and shaped the thought and works of Lewis.

The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 37: English Philosophers of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Contents The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper Utopia, by Sir Thomas More The Ninety-Five Theses and Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther Product Details Title: The Harvard Classics, vol. 36:...

The Verbum 6 Legacy Libraries reintroduce the classic libraries of Verbum 6. This library is offered without features and datasets, making it the perfect standalone collection of resources to help grow your library, including advanced reference works and original language materials.

The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 46 & 47: Complete Elizabethan Drama. Contents Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes Christian I: Luke & Acts Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns Buddhist: Writings Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran Product Details Title: The Harvard Classics, vol. 44 & 45: Complete Sacred...

Explore Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography and take a lively trip through his unique and eventful life. Virtually self-taught, Franklin excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and is one of the most successful diplomats in American history. Stylistically considered his best work, the text has become a classic in world literature. The Journal of John Woolman tells the powerful story of John Woolman’s life. Woolman was a seventeenth-century Quaker and abolitionist and his writing focuses on his moral, spiritual, and intellectual development. In particular, the journal depicts Woolman’s deep concern for equality and justice, and restoration in the world around him. He was an open advocate of abolition, and encouraged many to free their slaves. But his influence extended beyond the Quakers. This journal has been continuously published since 1774—a true testimony to the significance and impact of his life. In...

Volume 17 of the Harvard Classics compiles famous pieces of folklore and fable. Peruse the often-repeated fables of ancient Greek slave and storyteller, Aesop. Explore the German fairy tales preserved by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in their Household Tales, first published in 1812. You’ll also find the immensely popular fairy tales of Danish writer, Hans Christian Andersen, creator of such frequently reinterpreted stories as “The Little Mermaid,” “The Ugly Duckling,” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Though not particularly fond of children, oddly enough, Andersen had a marvelous knack of entertaining them by repeating old folk tales of the type collected by the Grimms. His success in this led him to attempt inventing new ones—stories that have remained popular since their publication in the mid 1800s. The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by...

The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 43: American Historical Documents. Poets Include: Chaucer Sir Philip Sidney Edmund Spenser Shakespeare John Donne George Herbert Alexander Pope William Blake Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Byron Percy Shelley Keats Lord Tennyson Product Details Title: The Harvard Classics, vol. 40-42: Complete English...

Explore the foundational text of evolutionary biology with Charles’ Darwin’s Origin of Species, first published in 1859. The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 12: Plutarch’s Lives. Contents The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin Product Details Title: The Harvard Classics, vol. 11: Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin Author: Charles Darwin Editor: Charles William Eliot Series:...

Modern English Drama is represented here by two comedies and four tragedies, published between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The great British, Irish, and Scottish playwrights include Robert Browning, Richard Sheridan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron. The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 19: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & Christopher Marlowe. Contents All for Love, by John Dryden The...

The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with Harvard Classics, vol. 35: Chronicle and Romance. Contents Discourse on Method, by René Descartes Letters on the English by Voltaire On the Inequality among Mankind and Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes Product Details Title: The Harvard Classics, vol. 34: French and English...

Explore two crucial texts in Christian theology and history, the Confessions of St. Augustine and Thomas à Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ. In this volume, you can examine one of the most important and enduring works of ascetic, Bishop of Hippo, and Church Father, St. Augustine. As the introduction to this volume notes, “[t]he Confessions . . . speaks for itself. The earliest of autobiographies, it remains unsurpassed as a sincere and intimate record of a great and pious soul laid bare before God.” Though there is some debate as to its authorship, the treatise The Imitation of Christ appears to have been originally written in Latin early in the fifteenth century by Thomas à Kempis. “With the exception of the Bible, no Christian writing has had so wide a vogue or so sustained a popularity as this. And yet, in one sense, it is hardly an original work at all. Its structure it owes largely to the writings of the medieval mystics, and its ideas and phrases are a mosaic from the Bible...

Rodion Raskolnikov was prepared to execute the perfect crime—to murder a duplicitous pawnbroker and perform good deeds with the victim’s ill-gained cash. In this psychological and philosophical masterwork following the events of a botched murder, a desperate marriage, and a throbbing conscience, Doestoevsky delivers an unforgettable journey into the human soul through themes of justice, redemption, nihilism, and love.

Our largest package, the 2025 Ultimate Library, provides an incredible library for biblical research and theological reflection. Whether focused on Church history or biblical exegesis, the vast collection of resources and titles at your fingertips cover the gamut—from most devotionals to practical discussions of pastoral ministry to the most rigorous scholarly and academic research. This package has everything you need to engage in the serious study of Scripture and its world, with respected resources like the Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | LHBOTS (382 vols.) and top-tier exegetical commentaries like the New International Commentary on the Old and New Testament | NIC (51 vols.).

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Explore nine plays by great Greek dramatists. The Harvard Classics Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics. Check out the complete The Harvard Classics and Fiction Collection. Keep reading with The Harvard Classics, vol. 9: Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny. Contents Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies, Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus Oedipus the King, Antigone, by Sophocles Hippolytus, The Bacchæ, by Euripides The Frogs, by Aristophanes Product Details Title: The Harvard Classics, vol. 8: Nine...