The Harvard Classics: Complete 51-Volume Collection: The Greatest Works of World Literature
By Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Burke, Plato and
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V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn
V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius
V. 3: Bacon, Milton's Prose, Browne
V. 4 Complete Poems by John Milton
V. 5: Essays & English Traits by Emerson
V. 6: Poems and Songs by Robert Burns
V. 7: The Confessions of Saint Augustine & The Imitation of Christ
V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas
V. 9: Cicero and Pliny
V. 10: The Wealth of Nations
V. 11: The Origin of Species
V. 12: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
V. 13: Aeneid
V. 14: Don Quixote
V. 15: Bunyan & Walton
V. 16: The Thousand and One Nights
V. 17: Folklore & Fable: Aesop, Grimm & Andersen
V. 18: Modern English Drama
V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe
V. 20: The Divine Comedy
V. 21: I Promessi Sposi
V. 22: The Odyssey
V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast
V. 24: Edmund Burke: French Revolution…
V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle
V. 26: Continental Drama
V. 27: English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
V. 28: Essays: English and American
V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle
V. 30: Scientific Papers
V. 31: Benvenuto Cellini
V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays
V. 33: Voyages & Travels
V. 34: French & English Philosophers
V. 35: Chronicle and Romance
V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther
V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume
V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
V. 39: Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
V. 40: English Poetry 1: from Chaucer to Gray
V. 41: English Poetry 2: from Collins to Fitzgerald
V. 42: English Poetry 3: from Tennyson to Whitman
V. 43: American Historical Documents
V. 44: Sacred Writings 1: Confucian, Hebrew & Christian
V. 45: Sacred Writings 2: Christian, Buddhist, Hindu & Mohammedan
V. 46: Elizabethan Drama 1: Marlowe & Shakespeare
V. 47: Elizabethan Drama 2: Dekker, Jonson, Webster, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher
V. 48: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works of Pascal
V. 49: Epic and Saga
V. 50: The Editor's Introduction & Reader's Guide
V. 51: Lectures
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an American writer, printer, politician, postmaster, scientist, and diplomat. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Franklin found success at a young age as editor and printer of the Pennsylvania Gazette, a prominent Philadelphia newspaper. From 1732 to 1758, Franklin published Poor Richard’s Almanack, a popular yearly pamphlet that earned Franklin much of his wealth. An influential Philadelphian, Franklin founded the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which would become the University of Pennsylvania, in 1751. In addition, Franklin founded the Library Company of Philadelphia, as well as the city’s first fire department. As revolutionary sentiment was on the rise in the thirteen colonies, Franklin traveled to London to advocate on behalf of Americans unhappy with British rule, earning a reputation as a skilled diplomat and shrewd negotiator. During the American Revolution, his relationships with French officials would prove essential for the war effort, the success of which depended upon munitions shipments from France. Over the next few decades, he would serve as the first postmaster general of the United States and as governor of Pennsylvania while maintaining his diplomatic duties. A dedicated and innovative scientist, Franklin is credited with important discoveries regarding the nature of electricity, as well as with inventing the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove. A slaveowner for many years, Franklin eventually became an abolitionist. Although he failed to raise the issue during the 1787 Constitutional Convention, he led the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society and wrote essays on the subject of slavery, which he deemed “an atrocious debasement of human nature.”
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