Auteur: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Thomas Carlyle, Theodor Storm, Charles Dickens, Plato, Theodor Fontane, René Descartes, Gottfried Keller, Mark Twain, Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill, Victor Hugo, Joseph Addison, Jane Austen, John Locke, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Alphonse Daudet, Thomas De Quincey, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, Henry Fielding, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Bret Harte, George Sand, John Ruskin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ernest Renan, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Webster, Washington Irving, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, Juan Valera, Alfred de Musset, James Russell Lowell, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Michael Faraday, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Everett Hale, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Voltaire, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Aristophanes, Blaise Pascal, Virgil, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Simon Newcomb, William Penn, Walter Bigges, Philip Sidney, Herodotus, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Giuseppe Mazzini, Francis Pretty, George Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Alessandro Manzoni, Abraham Cowley, Michel de Montaigne, Ben Jonson, John Woolman, Benvenuto Cellini, Sydney Smith, Jean Froissart, William Henry Harrison, William Harvey, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Thomas Malory, George Gordon Byron, Thomas à Kempis, Ivan Turgenev, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Archibald Geikie, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tacitus, William Roper, Hippocrates, Miguel de Cervantes, Thomas More, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Nichols, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pliny the Younger, Charles W. Eliot, Edgar Alan Poe, Saint Augustine, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Francis Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ambroise Paré, William A. Neilson, Honoré Balzac, Alexander L. Kielland
Nombre de pages: 30498 pages
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Date de publication: DigiCat
Description: The Harvard Classics Anthology offers an unparalleled overview of the literary and intellectual currents that have shaped Western thought. Spanning centuries and encompassing a plethora of styles, this collection knits together the timeless works of philosophers, playwrights, poets, and essayists. From the discerning social commentaries to the poetic embraces of human emotion, the anthology presents a tapestry that mirrors the human condition in all its complexity. Readers will find within its pages profound discourses on morality, sweeping narratives of adventure, and reflections on the nature of the self, all unified by the evolving dialogue between the past and the present. The anthology features a transcendent assembly of voices, bringing together titans of literature and philosophy such as Plato, Shakespeare, and Dickens, alongside pivotal figures of scientific and moral thought like Newton and Darwin. This collection not only encapsulates the individual brilliance of these thinkers but showcases the synergy of their collective exploration of themes that remain relevant today. These authors, emerging from a spectrum of cultural and historical contexts, intertwine to illuminate the sweeping trajectory of Western literature and philosophy, enhancing the reader's comprehension of the development of key intellectual movements. The Harvard Classics Anthology is not merely an assemblage of great works but a portal into the diverse intellectual legacies that have both questioned and defined society throughout history. Its vast array of perspectives provides an invaluable educational trove for those eager to understand the dialogues that have shaped human knowledge. As readers immerse themselves in this comprehensive volume, they are invited not only to witness but also to participate in the dynamic interchange of ideas that continue to influence the modern world. This anthology is an essential companion for students, scholars, and any voracious reader seeking to deepen their appreciation of the classics.
