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Volume 1

FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN

• His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin
• The Journal of John Woolman, by John Woolman
• Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn

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Volume 2

PLATO, EPICTETUS, AURELIUS

• The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito, by Plato
• The Golden Sayings, by Epictetus
• The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

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Volume 3

BACON, MILTON'S PROSE, THOS. BROWNE

• Essays, Civil and Moral, and New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
• Areopagitica and Tractate of Education, by John Milton
• Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne

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Volume 4

COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON

• Complete poems written in English, by John Milton

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Volume 5

ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON

• Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Volume 6

POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS

• Poems and songs, by Robert Burns

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Volume 7

CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATIONS OF CHRIST

• The Confessions, by Saint Augustine
• The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis

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Volume 8

NINE GREEK DRAMAS

• Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies, and Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus
• Oedipus the King and Antigone, by Sophocles
• Hippolytus and The Bacchae, by Euripides
• The Frogs, by Aristophanes

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Volume 9

LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY

• On Friendship, On Old Age, and Letters, by Cicero
• Letters, by Pliny the Younger

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Volume 10

WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH

• The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith

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Volume 11

ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN

• The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin

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Volume 12

PLUTARCH'S LIVES

• Lives, by Plutarch

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Volume 13

AENEID, VIRGIL

• Aeneid, by Virgil

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Volume 14

DON QUIXOTE, PART 1, CERVANTES

• Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes

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Volume 15

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON

• The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan
• The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton

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Volume 16

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

• Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

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Volume 17

FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSON

• Fables, by Aesop
• Children's and Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
• Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen

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Volume 18

MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA

• All for Love, by John Dryden
• The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith
• The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, by Robert Browning
• Manfred, by Lord Byron

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Volume 19

FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE

• Faust, Part 1, Egmont, and Hermann and Dorothea, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe

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Volume 20

THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE

• The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri

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Volume 21

I PROMESSI SPOSI, MANZONI

• I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni

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Volume 22

THE ODYSSEY, HOMER

• The Odyssey, by Homer

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Volume 23

TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA

• Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

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Volume 24

ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE

• On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution, and A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke

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Volume 25

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE

• Autobiography and On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
• Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, and Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle

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Volume 26

CONTINENTAL DRAMA

• Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille
• Phèdre, by Jean Racine
• Tartuffe, by Molière
• Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• William Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller

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Volume 27

ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY

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Volume 28

ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN

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Volume 29

VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN

• The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin

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Volume 30

FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC

• The Forces of Matter and The Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael Faraday
• On the Conservation of Force and Ice and Glaciers, by Hermann von Helmholtz
• The Wave Theory of Light and The Tides, by Lord Kelvin
• The Extent of the Universe, by Simon Newcomb
• Geographical Evolution, by Sir Archibald Geikie

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Volume 31

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI

• The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

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Volume 32

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

• Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
• Montaigne and What is a Classic?, by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
• The Poetry of the Celtic Races, by Ernest Renan
• The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, by Friedrich von Schiller
• Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, by Immanuel Kant
• Byron and Goethe, by Giuseppe Mazzini

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Volume 33

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

• An account of Egypt from The Histories, by Herodotus
• Germany, by Tacitus
• Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols
• Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World, by Francis Pretty
• Drake's Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges
• Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland, by Edward Haies
• The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh

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Volume 34

FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES

• Discourse on Method, by René Descartes
• Letters on the English, by Voltaire
• On the Inequality among Mankind and Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes

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Volume 35

CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD

• Chronicles, by Jean Froissart
• The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory
• A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison

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Volume 36

MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER

• The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
• The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper
• Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
• The Ninety-Five Theses, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, and On the Freedom of a Christian, by Martin Luther

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Volume 37

LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME

• Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
• Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume

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Volume 38

HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR

• The Oath of Hippocrates
• Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré
• On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey
• The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner
• The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister
• Scientific papers, by Louis Pasteur
• Scientific papers, by Charles Lyell

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Volume 39

FAMOUS PREFACES

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Volume 40

ENGLISH POETRY 1: CHAUCER TO GRAY

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Volume 41

ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD

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Volume 42

ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN

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Volume 43

AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

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Volume 44

SACRED WRITINGS 1

• Confucian: The sayings of Confucius
• Hebrew: Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes
• Christian I: Luke and Acts

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Volume 45

SACRED WRITINGS 2

• Christian II: Corinthians I and II and hymns
• Buddhist: Writings
• Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita
• Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran

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Volume 46

ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1

• Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe
• Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest, by William Shakespeare

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Volume 47

ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2

• The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker
• The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
• Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher
• The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster
• A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger

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Volume 48

THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL

• Thoughts, letters, and minor works, by Blaise Pascal

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Volume 49

EPIC AND SAGA

• Beowulf
• The Song of Roland
• The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel
• The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs

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Volume 50

INTRODUCTION, READER'S GUIDE, INDEXES

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Volume 51

The last volume contains sixty lectures introducing and summarizing the covered fields of:

• history
• poetry
• natural science
• philosophy
• biography
• prose fiction
• criticism and the essay
• education
• political science
• drama
• travelogues
• religion

There are 5 lectures for each subject, beginning with an introductory lecture with consequent text covering the subjects in increasing depth.

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