Welcome to the Portable Library. These volumes have been hailed as the most influential and important works of the human mind. They have been collected by various groups and individuals, and The Portable Library is proud to offer them to new generations in a new format.The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, was originally published in 1909. Dr. Eliot, then President of Harvard University, had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending fifteen minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. Click on a cover or on the list to purchase a volume for only 99 cents!

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The Harvard Classics

Benjamin Franklin John Woolman William Penn Plato Epictetus Marcus Aurelius Sir Francis Bacon John Milton Sir Thomas Browne John Milton Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Burns Saint Augustine Thomas a Kempis Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes Cicero Pliny the Younger Adam Smith

Autobiography Journal Some Fruits of Solitude Apolgy, Phaedo & Crito Golden Sayings Mediations Essays, Civil and Moral (with The New Atlantis) Areopagitica and Tractate on Education Religio Medici Paradise Lost and Regained, with Samson Agonistes Essays and English Traits Poems and Songs Confessions The Imitation of Christ The Oresteia (with Prometheus Bound) Three Theban Plays Hippolytus and The Baccae The Frogs Treatises and Epistles Letters The Wealth of Nations