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Aesop
Many tales have been collected and they are represented in the present volume by the household tales preserved by Grimm. Far earlier written down, but less primitive in kind, are…
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Dryden
Contents: All For Love; Or the World Well Lost; The School for Scandal; She Stoops to Conquer; The Cenci; A Blot in the Scutcheon; Manfred.
Montaigne
Contents: By Montaigne: That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness Until After Our Death; That to Philosophize is to Learn How to Die; Of the Institution and Education of…
Descartes
Contents: By Descartes: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences; By Voltaire: Letters on the English; By Rousseau: Discourse Upon the…
Froissart
Contents: The Chronicles of Froissart, Translated by Lord Berners, edited by G.C. Macaulay: The Campaign of Crecy; The Battle of Poitiers; Wat Tyler’s Rebellion; The Battle of Otterburn; Sir Thomas…
Machiavelli
Contents: The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli; The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper; Utopia by Sir Thomas More; Ninety-five Theses; Address to the Christian nobility of the German…
Aeschylus
Contents: The House of Atreus; Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus. Oedipus the King; Antigone by Sophocles. Hippolytus; The Bacchae by Euripides. The Frogs by Aristophanes.
Homer
Translated by S.H. Butcher and A. Lang. In the Odyssey varied tales from all over the world are combined into a single plot of the most admirable structure, with almost…
Aristophanes
Gives readers a taste of the Classics’ huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts…
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Plato
Contents: The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus translated by Hastings Crossley. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Translated by George Long.
Plutarch
Plutarch’s Lives of Themistocles; Pericles; Aristides; Alcibiades and Coriolanus; Comparison of Alcibiades with Coriolanus; Demosthenes; and Cicero; Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero; Caesar and Antony. In the translation called Dryden’s…
Moliere
Contents: Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderon De La Barca. Polyeucte by Pierre Corneille. Phaedra by Jean Baptiste Racine. Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere. Minna…
Eugen Kuehnemann
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
""Charles W. Eliot: President Of Harvard University May 19, 1869 To May 19, 1909"" is a historical biography written by Eugen Kuehnemann in 1909. The book chronicles the life and…
Cicero
Contents: On Friendship; On Old Age; Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Letters by Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus.
Translated by S. H. Butcher and A. Lang. In the Odyssey varied tales from all over the world are combined into a single plot of the most admirable structure, with…
Charles Darwin
Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Historical Sketch; Variation Under Domestication; Variation Under Nature; Struggle for Existence; Natural Selection or the Survival of the Fittest; Laws of Variation; Difficulties of the Theory; Miscellaneous…
The text of the present volume shows without further comment the nature of Darwin’s labors and their results on his momentous voyage. A few sentences gathered from his autobiography will…
Charles W Eliot
John Locke
Contents: Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke; Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Skeptics and Atheists by George Berkeley; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David…
Blaise Pascal
Contents: Thoughts on Mind and Style; The Misery of Man Without God; Of the Necessity of the Wager; Of the Means of Belief; Justice and the Reason of Effects; The…
Francis Bacon
Contents: Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral; New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon. Areopagitica; A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. Milton’s Tractate on Education. Religio Medici Parts 1 and…
Aeschylus,Sophocles
Author names not noted above: Euripides and Aristophanes. Translator names not noted above: E.D.A. Morshead, E.H. Plumtre, Gilbert Murray, and B.B. Rogers. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the…
Herodotus,Tacitus
Author names not noted above: Sir Francis Drake, Francis Petty, Walter Biggs, Edward Hayes, Sir Walter Raleigh Editor name not noted above: Philip Nichols Translator names not noted above: G.C…
Michael Faraday
Contents: Forces of Matter; Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday. On the Conservation of Force; Ice and Glaciers; by Hermann Von Helmholtz. The Wave Theory of Light; The…
Charles W. Eliot
Volume 1 of 10. Fairy and Wonder Tales. The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales…
Volume 2 of 10. Folktales and Myths. The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories…
Volume 5 of 10. Stories that Never Grow Old. The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of…
Volume 4 of 10. Heroes and Heroines. The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories…
Volume 3 of 10. Tales from Greece and Rome. The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of…
Volume 9 of 10. Stories of Today. The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories…
Francis Bacon,Charles W. Eliot
John Milton
Contents: Poems Written at School and at College 1624-1632. Poems Written at Horton. Poems Written During the civil War and the Protectorate. Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained. Milton’s Introduction to Samson…
Edmund Burke
Contents: On Taste; On the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the French Revolution; A Letter to a Noble Lord.
R.H. Dana
R.H. Dana took a sea voyage and decided to go as a sailor not as a passenger. The voyage was bound from his home town of Boston to California. His…
Alessandro Manzoni
This is in form an historical novel. It is rather psychological and sentimental. The scene is laid in Lombardy between 1628-1631, and the plot deals with the thwarting of the…
Volume 6 of 10. Old Fashioned Tales. The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories…
Volume 8 of 10. Animal and Nature Stories. The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales…
