"Five-foot shelf of books"

50 vol. numbered ; 1 vol. Lectures ; 1 vol. Reading guide.

v.1. The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin ; Journal of John Woolman ; Fruits of solitude / by William Penn -- v.2. The apology, ph�do and crito of Plato ; The golden sayings of Epictetus ; The meditations of Marcus Aurelius -- v.3. Essays, civil and moral & the new Atlantis / by Francis Bacon. Areopagitica & tractate on education / by John Milton. Religio Medici / by Thomas Browne -- v.4. Complete poems of John Milton : written in English -- v.5. Essays and English traits / by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- v.6. Poems and songs / by Robert Burns -- v.7. The confessions of Saint Augustine. The imitation of Christ / by Thomas �A Kempis -- v.8. Nine Greek dramas / by Aeschylus -- v.9. On friendship, on old age & letters / by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Letters / by Pliny the younger -- v.10. Wealth of nations / by Adam Smith -- v.11. The origin of species / by Charles Darwin -- v.12. Plutarch's lives / by Plutarch -- v.13. Virgil's Aeneid / translated by John Dryden -- v.14. Don Quixote of the Mancha (part I) / by Miguel De Cervantes -- v.15. The pilgrim's progress / by John Bunyan. The lives of Donne and Herbert / by Izaak Walton -- v.16. Stories from the thousand and one nights / translated by Edward William Lane -- v.17. Folk-lore and fables of Aesop, Jacob, Grimm & Andersen -- v.18. Modern English drama of Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron -- v.19. Faust (part I) ; Egmont ; Hermann and Dorothea / J.W. von Goethe. Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- v.20. The Divine comedy / by Dante Alighieri -- v.21. I promessi sposi / by Alessandro Manzoni -- v.22. The Odyssey of Homer -- v.23. Two years before the mast / by Richard Henry Dana -- v.24. On taste, on the sublime and beautiful. Reflections on the French. Revolution & a letter to a noble lord / Edmund Burke -- v.25. Autobiography & essay on liberty / by John Stuart Mill. Characteristics, inaugural address / by Thomas Carlyle.

v.26. Continental drama of Calderon, Corneille, Racing, Moli�ere, Lessing, Schiller -- v.27. English essays : from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay -- v.28. English and American essays : from William Makepeace Thackeray to James Russell Lowell -- v.29. The voyage of the Beagle / by Charles Darwin -- v.30. Scientific papers : physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology / by Faraday ... [et al.] -- v.31. The autobiography of Benvenuto Cllini -- v.30. Literary and philosophical essays : French, German and Italian / by Montaigne, Ernest Renan -- v.33. Voyages and travels : ancient and modern / by Herodotus ... [et al.] -- v.34. French and English philosophers / by DEscartes ... [et al.] -- v.35. Chronicle and romance / by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory -- v.36. The prince / by Niccolo Machiavelli. Utopia / by Thomas More. Thesis and address / by Martin Luther -- v.37. English philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / by Locke, Berkeley and Hume -- v.38. Scientific papers : physiology, medicine, surgery, geology / by Ambroise Par�e, William Harvey, Edward Jenner -- v.39. Prefaces and prologues to famous books / by Caxton ... [et al.] -- v.40. English poetry from Chaucer to Gray (volume 1) -- v.41. English poetry : from Collins to Fitzgerald (volume II) -- v.42. English poetry : from Tennyson to Whitman (volume III) -- v.43. American historical documents (1000-1904) -- v.44. Sacred writings : Confucian, Hebrew, Christian (part I), (volume I) -- v.45. Sacred writings Christian (part II), Buddhist, Hindu, Mohammedan (volume II) -- v.46. Elizabethan drama (volume I) / by Marlowe, Shakespeare -- v.47. Elizabethan drama (volume II) / Dekker ... [et al.] -- v.48. Thoughts, letters & minor works of Blaise Pascal -- v.49. Epic & saga -- v.50. Editor's introduction; Reader's guide; Index -- [v.51]. Lectures on the Harvard classics -- [v.52]. Fifteen minutes a day : the reading guide.