Harvard Classics

1.
Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
by: Plutarch
4.10 avg rating — 5,998 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3.85 avg rating — 89,888 ratings
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating — 232,037 ratings
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Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by: Sophocles
3.68 avg rating — 170,489 ratings
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Dr. Faustus
Dr. Faustus 3.80 avg rating — 71,012 ratings
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The Betrothed
The Betrothed 3.87 avg rating — 17,052 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea 4.02 avg rating — 14,412 ratings
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The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,448 ratings
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Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating — 320,842 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,284 ratings
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The Imitation of Christ
The Imitation of Christ 4.23 avg rating — 25,681 ratings
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Chronicles
Chronicles 3.98 avg rating — 799 ratings
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Sir Francis Drake's Great Armada
Sir Francis Drake's Great Armada 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,064 ratings
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The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress 4.07 avg rating — 154,163 ratings
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The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by: Virgil
3.87 avg rating — 139,155 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini 3.98 avg rating — 3,496 ratings
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Aesop’s Fables
Aesop’s Fables
by: Aesop
4.05 avg rating — 128,595 ratings
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The Tempest
The Tempest 3.78 avg rating — 222,574 ratings
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales 4.23 avg rating — 219,199 ratings
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Egmont: A Tragedy in Five Acts
Egmont: A Tragedy in Five Acts 3.44 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Hermann und Dorothea
Hermann und Dorothea 3.50 avg rating — 674 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,126 ratings
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Edmund Burke: On Taste, On The Sublime And Beautiful, Reflections On The French Revolution, A Letter To A Noble Lord
Edmund Burke: On Taste, On The Sublime And Beautiful, Reflections On The French Revolution, A Letter To A Noble Lord 3.69 avg rating — 2,670 ratings
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On Liberty
On Liberty 3.96 avg rating — 41,829 ratings
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Autobiography
Autobiography 3.76 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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Characteristics, "Inaugural Address," and "Sir Walter Scott"
Characteristics, "Inaugural Address," and "Sir Walter Scott" liked it 3.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Tartuffe
Tartuffe
by: Molière
3.66 avg rating — 42,287 ratings
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Minna von Barnhelm
Minna von Barnhelm 3.29 avg rating — 1,608 ratings
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Wilhelm Tell
Wilhelm Tell 3.21 avg rating — 8,823 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
Voyage of the Beagle 4.02 avg rating — 8,292 ratings
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The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 18,743 ratings
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Polyeucte
Polyeucte 3.46 avg rating — 469 ratings
33.
Phèdre
Phèdre 3.69 avg rating — 23,854 ratings
35.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,816 ratings
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Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey
Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey 4.06 avg rating — 218 ratings
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The Journal Of John Woolman
The Journal Of John Woolman 3.48 avg rating — 764 ratings
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Some Fruits Of Solitude
Some Fruits Of Solitude 3.53 avg rating — 535 ratings
39.
Apology
Apology
by: Plato
4.19 avg rating — 63,766 ratings
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Phaedo
Phaedo
by: Plato
4.07 avg rating — 15,819 ratings
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Life's a Dream
Life's a Dream 3.93 avg rating — 26,848 ratings
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Crito
Crito
by: Plato
3.93 avg rating — 11,036 ratings
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
by: Epictetus
3.93 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
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Essays, Civil and Moral
Essays, Civil and Moral 3.81 avg rating — 4,475 ratings
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The New Atlantis
The New Atlantis 3.08 avg rating — 4,341 ratings
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Areopagitica
Areopagitica 3.85 avg rating — 2,546 ratings
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Milton's Tractate On Education
Milton's Tractate On Education 3.40 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Religio Medici
Religio Medici 3.83 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Complete Poems of John Milton
Complete Poems of John Milton 4.06 avg rating — 3,711 ratings
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The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.23 avg rating — 2,683 ratings
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English Traits
English Traits 3.45 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Robert Burns: Selected Poems and Songs
Robert Burns: Selected Poems and Songs 4.08 avg rating — 152 ratings
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The Life of Sir Thomas More
The Life of Sir Thomas More 3.87 avg rating — 138 ratings
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A Description of Elizabethan England 1577
A Description of Elizabethan England 1577 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
by: Aeschylus
3.84 avg rating — 22,035 ratings
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The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2)
The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2)
by: Aeschylus
3.81 avg rating — 3,908 ratings
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Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar 3.85 avg rating — 2,813 ratings
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Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
by: Aeschylus
3.84 avg rating — 4,906 ratings
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A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind 3.79 avg rating — 18,362 ratings
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Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound
by: Aeschylus
3.93 avg rating — 20,801 ratings
60.
Letters on England
Letters on England
by: Voltaire
3.67 avg rating — 2,788 ratings
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Discourse on Method
Discourse on Method 3.72 avg rating — 24,483 ratings
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The Discovery of Guiana and the Journal of the Second Voyage Thereto
The Discovery of Guiana and the Journal of the Second Voyage Thereto 2.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Bacchae
The Bacchae
by: Euripides
3.93 avg rating — 24,377 ratings
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
66.
Hippolytus
Hippolytus
by: Euripides
3.81 avg rating — 6,809 ratings
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The Frogs
The Frogs 3.79 avg rating — 9,016 ratings
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Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World
Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Letters of Cicero
Letters of Cicero 3.86 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Sir Francis Drake Revived
Sir Francis Drake Revived 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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On Old Age, On Friendship & On Divination
On Old Age, On Friendship & On Divination 4.10 avg rating — 567 ratings
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Tacitus on Germany
Tacitus on Germany
by: Tacitus
3.88 avg rating — 1,903 ratings
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The Letters of the Younger Pliny
The Letters of the Younger Pliny 3.92 avg rating — 1,999 ratings
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The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics/Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics/Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals 3.74 avg rating — 43 ratings
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 3.88 avg rating — 34,382 ratings
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man
On the Aesthetic Education of Man 3.94 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
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The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,198 ratings
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The Education of the Human Race
The Education of the Human Race 3.33 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Poetry of the Celtic Races, and Other Studies
The Poetry of the Celtic Races, and Other Studies 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
by: Plutarch
4.19 avg rating — 3,210 ratings
80.
Essays
Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,557 ratings
82.
Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy
Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy 3.63 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
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Utopia
Utopia 3.55 avg rating — 80,701 ratings
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The Lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert & Robert Sanderson
The Lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert & Robert Sanderson 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
84.
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation 3.94 avg rating — 123 ratings
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One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights 3.78 avg rating — 3,713 ratings
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On the Freedom of a Christian
On the Freedom of a Christian 3.86 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous: in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous: in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists 3.74 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
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Hippocratic Oath
Hippocratic Oath 3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Complete Fairy Tales
The Complete Fairy Tales 4.29 avg rating — 108,192 ratings
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The Law
The Law really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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All for Love
All for Love 3.39 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
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Journeys In Diverse Places
Journeys In Diverse Places 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The School for Scandal
The School for Scandal 3.61 avg rating — 7,921 ratings
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On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals
On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals 3.71 avg rating — 339 ratings
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She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer 3.65 avg rating — 12,184 ratings
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The Three Original Publications On Vaccination Against Smallpox
The Three Original Publications On Vaccination Against Smallpox really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Cenci
The Cenci 3.61 avg rating — 729 ratings
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American Historical Documents 1000 to 1904: Part 43 Harvard Classics
American Historical Documents 1000 to 1904: Part 43 Harvard Classics 4.11 avg rating — 55 ratings
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A Blot in the 'Scutcheon
A Blot in the 'Scutcheon 2.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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