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Eliot, LLD</h3> <p><p>The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </p> <p size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </p> <h3>Contents</h3> <p><table cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><span style="color: #0b074f;">NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON, 1909–1917<br /> NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001</span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p> <table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">The Harvard Classics</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">VOL. I.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/his-autobiography-1706-1757/">His Autobiography</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/franklin-benjamin/">Benjamin Franklin</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-journal-of-john-woolman/">Journal</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/woolman-john/">John Woolman</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/fruits-of-solitude/">Fruits of Solitude</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/penn-william/">William Penn</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">II.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-apology-phaedo-and-crito/">The Apology, Phædo and Crito</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/plato/">Plato</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-golden-sayings-of-epictetus/">The Golden Sayings</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/epictetus/">Epictetus</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-meditations-of-marcus-aurelius/">The Meditations</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/marcus-aurelius/">Marcus Aurelius</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">III.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/essays-civil-and-moral">Essays, Civil and Moral</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-new-atlantis">The New Atlantis</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/francis-bacon/">Francis Bacon</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/areopagitica">Areopagitica</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/tractate-on-education/">Tractate on Education</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/milton-john/">John Milton</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/category/religio-medici">Religio Medici</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/browne-thomas-sir/">Sir Thomas Browne</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">IV.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/complete-poems-written-in-english/">Complete Poems Written in English</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/milton-john/">John Milton</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">V.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/essays-and-english-traits/">Essays and English Traits</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/emerson-ralph-waldo/">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">VI.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/poems-and-songs/">Poems and Songs</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/burns-robert/">Robert Burns</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">VII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/harvard-classics-vol-7-part-1">The Confessions</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/saint-augustine/">Saint Augustine</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/harvard-classics-vol-7-part-2">The Imitation of Christ</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/thomas-a-kempis/">Thomas à Kempis</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">VIII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/agamemnon">Agamemnon</a>, <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-libation-bearers">The Libation-Bearers</a>, <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-furies">The Furies</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/prometheus-bound">Prometheus Bound</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/aeschylus/">Aeschylus</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/oedipus-the-king/">Oedipus the King</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/antigone/">Antigone</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/sophocles/">Sophocles</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/hippolytus/">Hippolytus</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-bacchae/">The Bacchæ</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/euripides/">Euripides</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-frogs">The Frogs</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/aristophanes/">Aristophanes</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">IX.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/on-friendship/">On Friendship</a>, <a href="/lit-hub/hc/on-old-age">On Old Age</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/letters/">Letters</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/cicero/">Cicero</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/letters-pliny-the-younger/">Letters</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/pliny-the-younger/">Pliny the Younger</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">X.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/wealth-of-nations/">Wealth of Nations</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/smith-adam/">Adam Smith</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XI.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-origin-of-species/">The Origin of Species</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/darwin-charles/">Charles Darwin</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/lives/">Lives</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/plutarch/">Plutarch</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XIII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/aeneid/">Æneid</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/vergil/">Vergil</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XIV.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/don-quixote-part-1">Don Quixote, Part 1</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/cervantes-miguel-de/">Cervantes</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XV.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-pilgrims-progress/">The Pilgrim’s Progress</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/bunyan-john/">John Bunyan</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-lives-of-donne-and-herbert/">The Lives of Donne and Herbert</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/walton-izaak/">Izaak Walton</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XVI.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/stories-from-the-thousand-and-one-nights/">Stories from the Thousand and One Nights</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XVII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/fables">Fables</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/aesop/">Æsop</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/household-tales/">Household Tales</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/grimm-jacob-and-wilhelm/">Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/tales">Tales</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/hans-christian-andersen/">Hans Christian Andersen</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"><a name="18"></a>XVIII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/all-for-love/">All for Love</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/dryden-john/">John Dryden</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-school-for-scandal/">The School for Scandal</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/sheridan-richard-brinsley/">Richard Brinsley Sheridan</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/she-stoops-to-conquer-or-the-mistakes-of-a-night-a-comedy">She Stoops to Conquer</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/goldsmith-oliver/">Oliver Goldsmith</a><br /> <a href="/18/4/">The Cenci</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/shelley-percy-bysshe/">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/a-blot-in-the-scutcheon">A Blot in the ’Scutcheon</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/robert-browning/">Robert Browning</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/manfred">Manfred</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/byron-lord/">Lord Byron</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XIX.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/faust-part-i/">Faust, Part I</a>, <a href="/lit-hub/hc/egmont/">Egmont</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/hermann-and-dorothea/">Hermann and Dorothea</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/goethe-j-w-von/">J.W. von Goethe</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/dr-faustus/">Dr. Faustus</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/marlowe-christopher/">Christopher Marlowe</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XX.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-divine-comedy/">The Divine Comedy</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/dante-alighieri/">Dante Alighieri</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXI.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/i-promessi-sposi/">I Promessi Sposi</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/manzoni-alessandro/">Alessandro Manzoni</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-odyssey/">The Odyssey</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/homer/">Homer</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXIII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/two-years-before-the-mast/">Two Years before the Mast</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/dana-richard-henry-jr/">Richard Henry Dana, Jr</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXIV.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/24/1/">On Taste</a>, <a href="/24/2/">On the Sublime and Beautiful</a>, <a href="/24/3/">Reflections on the French Revolution</a> & <a href="/24/4/">A Letter to a Noble Lord</a>, by <a href="/people/Burke-Ed.html">Edmund Burke</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXV.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/autobiography-harvard-classics-vol-25-part-1/">Autobiography</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/on-liberty/">On Liberty</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/mill-john-stuart/">John Stuart Mill</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/characteristics">Characteristics</a>, <a href="/lit-hub/hc/inaugural-address-at-edinburgh">Inaugural Address at Edinburgh</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/sir-walter-scott">Sir Walter Scott</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/carlyle-thomas/">Thomas Carlyle</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"><a name="26"></a>XXVI.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/life-is-a-dream">Life Is a Dream</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/calderon-de-la-barca-pedro/">Pedro Calderón de la Barca</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/polyeucte/">Polyeucte</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/corneille-pierre/">Pierre Corneille</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/phaedra">Phædra</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/racine-jean/">Jean Racine</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/tartuffe/">Tartuffe</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/moliere/">Molière</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/minna-von-barnhelm/">Minna von Barnhelm</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/lessing-gotthold-ephraim/">Gotthold Ephraim Lessing</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/wilhelm-tell/">Wilhelm Tell</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/schiller-friedrich-von/">Friedrich von Schiller</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXVII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/english-essays-from-sir-philip-sidney-to-macaulay">English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXVIII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/essays-english-and-american">Essays: English and American</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXIX.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-voyage-of-the-beagle">The Voyage of the Beagle</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/darwin-charles/">Charles Darwin</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXX.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/scientific-papers-physics-chemistry-astronomy-geology/">Scientific Papers</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXXI.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/autobiography/">The Autobiography</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/cellini-benvenuto/">Benvenuto Cellini</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXXII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/literary-and-philosophical-essays/">Literary and Philosophical Essays</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXXIII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/voyages-and-travels-ancient-and-modern/">Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXXIV.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/discourse-on-method">Discourse on Method</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/descartes-rene/">René Descartes</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/letters-on-the-english/">Letters on the English</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/voltaire/">Voltaire</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/on-the-inequality-among-mankind/">On the Inequality among Mankind</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/profession-of-faith-of-a-savoyard-vicar/">Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/rousseau-jean-jacques/">Jean Jacques Rousseau</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/of-man-being-the-first-part-of-leviathan/">Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/hobbes-thomas/">Thomas Hobbes</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXXV.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-chronicles-of-froissart/">The Chronicles</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/froissart-jean/">Jean Froissart</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-holy-grail/">The Holy Grail</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/malory-sir-thomas/">Sir Thomas Malory</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/a-description-of-elizabethan-england/">A Description of Elizabethan England</a>, by William Harrison</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXXVI.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-prince/">The Prince</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/machiavelli-niccolo/">Niccolo Machiavelli</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-life-of-sir-thomas-more/">The Life of Sir Thomas More</a>, by <a>William Roper</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/utopia/">Utopia</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/more-sir-thomas/">Sir Thomas More</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-ninety-five-thesis/">The Ninety-Five Thesis</a>, <a href="/lit-hub/hc/address-to-the-christian-nobility/">Address to the Christian Nobility</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/concerning-christian-liberty/">Concerning Christian Liberty</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/luther-martin/">Martin Luther</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXXVII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/some-thoughts-concerning-education/">Some Thoughts Concerning Education</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/locke-john/">John Locke</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/harvard-classics-vol-37-part-2">Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/george-berkeley/">George Berkeley</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding/">An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/hume-david/">David Hume</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"><a name="38"></a>XXXVIII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-oath-and-law-of-hippocrates/">The Oath</a> of <a href="/lit-hub/people/hippocrates/">Hippocrates</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/journeys-in-diverse-places/">Journeys in Diverse Places</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/pare-ambrose/">Ambroise Paré</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/motion-of-the-heart-and-blood-in-animals/">On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/harvey-william/">William Harvey</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/publications-on-vaccination-against-smallox/">The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/jenner-edward/">Edward Jenner</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-contagiousness-of-puerperal-fever/">The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/holmes-oliver-wendell/">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/antiseptic-principle-of-the-practice-of-surgery/">On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/lister-joseph/">Joseph Lister</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/scientific-papers-vol-38-part-7/">Scientific Papers</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/pasteur-louis/">Louis Pasteur</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/scientific-papers/">Scientific Papers</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/lyell-charles/">Charles Lyell</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XXXIX.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/prefaces-and-prologues/">Prefaces and Prologues</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XL.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/english-poetry-i/">English Poetry I: Chaucer to Gray</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XLI.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/english-poetry-ii/">English Poetry II: Collins to Fitzgerald</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XLII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/bibliography/english-poetry-iii/">English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">XLIII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/american-historical-documents/">American Historical Documents</a>: 1000–1904</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"><a name="44"></a>XLIV.</td> <td valign="top">Confucian: <a href="/lit-hub/hc/sayings/">The Sayings of Confucius</a><br /> Hebrew: <a href="/44/2/">Job</a>, <a href="/44/3/">Psalms</a> & <a href="/44/4/">Ecclesiastes</a><br /> Christian I: <a href="/44/5/">Luke</a> & <a href="/44/6/">Acts</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"><a name="45"></a>XLV.</td> <td valign="top">Christian II: <a href="/45/1/">Corinthians I & II</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/hymns-of-the-christian-church/">Hymns</a><br /> Buddhist: <a href="/lit-hub/hc/buddhist-writings">Writings</a><br /> Hindu: <a href="/lit-hub/hc/harvard-classics-vol-45-part-4/">The Bhagavad-Gita</a><br /> Mohammedan: <a href="/lit-hub/hc/chapters-from-the-koran">Chapters from the Koran</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"><a name="46"></a>XLVI.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/edward-the-second/">Edward the Second</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/marlowe-christopher/">Christopher Marlowe</a><br /> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/hamlet/">Hamlet</a>, <a href="/lit-hub/hc/king-lear/">King Lear</a>, <a href="/lit-hub/hc/macbeth/">Macbeth</a> & <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-tempest/">The Tempest</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/shakespeare-william/">William Shakespeare</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"><a name="47"></a>XLVII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/47/1/">The Shoemaker’s Holiday</a>, by <a href="/people/Dekker-T.html">Thomas Dekker</a><br /> <a href="/47/2/">The Alchemist</a>, by <a href="/people/Jonson-B.html">Ben Jonson</a><br /> <a href="/47/3/">Philaster</a>, by <a href="/people/BeaumontFletcher.html">Beaumont and Fletcher</a><br /> <a href="/47/4/">The Duchess of Malfi</a>, by <a href="/people/WebsterJ.html">John Webster</a><br /> <a href="/47/5/">A New Way to Pay Old Debts</a>, by <a href="/people/Massinge.html">Philip Massinger</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"><a name="48"></a>XLVIII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/48/1/">Thoughts</a>, <a href="/48/2/">Letters</a> & <a href="/48/3/">Minor Works</a>, by <a href="/people/Pascal-B.html">Blaise Pascal</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"><a name="49"></a>XLIX.</td> <td valign="top">Epic & Saga: <a href="/49/1/">Beowulf</a>, <a href="/49/2/">The Song of Roland</a>, <a href="/49/3/">The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel</a> & <a href="/49/4/">The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"><a name="51"></a>LI.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/harvard-classics-vol-51">Lectures on the Harvard Classics</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="/br/sf.html">Bibliographic Record</a> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-history-of-tom-jones-a-foundling/harvard-classics-shelf-of-fiction">General Introduction</a> <a href="/lit-hub/hc/index-to-criticisms-and-interpretations/">Index to Criticisms and Interpretations</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">VOLS. I & II.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-history-of-tom-jones-a-foundling/">The History of Tom Jones</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/fielding-henry/">Henry Fielding</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">III.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/a-sentimental-journey-through-france-and-italy">A Sentimental Journey</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/laurence-sterne/">Laurence Sterne</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/pride-and-prejudice">Pride and Prejudice</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/jane-austen/">Jane Austen</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">IV.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/guy-mannering-or-the-astrologer/">Guy Mannering</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/scott-sir-walter/">Sir Walter Scott</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">V & VI.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/vanity-fair-a-novel-without-a-hero/">Vanity Fair</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/thackeray-william-m/">William Makepeace Thackeray</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">VII. & VIII.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/david-copperfield/">David Copperfield</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/dickens-charles/">Charles Dickens</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">IX.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/the-mill-on-the-floss/">The Mill on the Floss</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/eliot-george/">George Eliot</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">X.</td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/the-scarlet-letter-rappaccinis-daughter/">The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini’s Daughter</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/hawthorne-nathaniel/">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/rip-van-winkle-the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow/">Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/irving-washington/">Washington Irving</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/eleonora-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-the-purloined-letter/">Three Short Stories</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/poe-edgar-allan/">Edgar Allan Poe</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/three-stories/">Three Short Stories</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/harte-francis-bret/">Francis Bret Harte</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td valign="top"><a href="/lit-hub/hc/jim-smily-and-his-jumping-frog/">Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog</a>, by <a href="/lit-hub/people/twain-mark/">Samuel L. 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