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P.F. Collier & Son
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[1937-38]
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English
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v. 1. The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. The journal of John Woolman. Fruits of solitude, by William Penn.-v. 2. The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato. The golden sayings of Epictetus. The meditations of Marcus Aurelius.-v. 3. Essays, civil and moral, and The new Atlantis, by F. Bacon. Areopagitica, and Tractae on education, by J. Milton. Beligio medici, by T. Browne.-v. 4. The complete poems, by John Milton.-v. 5. Essays, and English traits, by R.W. Emerson.-v. 6. Poems and songs of Robert Burns.-v. 7. The confessions of St. Augustine. The imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis.-v. 8. Nine Greek dramas, by Aeschuylus [and others].-v. 9. Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero, with his treatises on friendship and old age. Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus.-v. 10. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, by A. Smith.-v. 11. The origin of species, by C.R. Darwin.-v. 12. Plutarch's lives.-v. 13. Virgil's Aeneid.-v. 14. The first part of the delightful history of the most ingenious knight Don Quixote of the Mancha, by Cervantes.-v. 15. Pilgrim's progress, by J. Bunyan. The lives of John Donne and George Herbert, by I. Walton.-v. 16. Stories from The thousand and one nights. (The Arabian nights entertainments).-v. 17. Folk-lore and fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen.-v. 18. Modern English drama.-v. 19. Faust (part 1), Egmont [and] Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe. Doctor Faustus, by C. Marlowe.-v. 20. The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri.-v. 21. I promessi sposi (The betrothed), by A. Manzoni.-v. 22. Homer's Odyssey.-v. 23. Two years before the mast, and Twenty-four years after, by R.H. Dana.
v. 24. On taste, On the sublime and beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution, and A letter to a noble lord, by E. Burke.-v. 25. Autobiography, and Essay on liberty, by J.S. Mill. Characteristics, Inagural address, and Essay on liberty, by T. Carlyle.-v. 26. Continental drama.-v. 27. English essays from Sir Phillip Sidney to Macaulay.-v. 28. Essays, English and American.-v. 29. The voyage of the Beagle, by C.R. Darwin.-v. 30. Scientific papers: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology.-v. 31. The autobiography of benevenuto Cellini.-v. 32. Literary and philosophycal essays, French, German, and Italian.-v. 33. Voyages and travels, ancient and modern.-v. 34. French and English philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes.-v. 35. Chronicle and romance: Frossart, Malory, Holinshed.-v. 36. The prince, by N. Machiavelli. Utopia, by T. More. Ninety-five theses, Address to the German nobility, and Concerning Christian liberty, by M. Luther.-v. 37. English philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Locke, Berkeley, Hume.-v. 38. Scientific papers: physiology, medicine, surgery, geology.-v. 39. Prefaces and prologues to famous books.-v. 40-42. English poetry.-v. 43. American historical documents.-v. 44-45. Sacred writings.-v. 46-47. Elizabethan drama.-v. 48. Thoughts, Letters, and Minor works, by B. Pascal.-v. 49. Epic and saga.-v. 50. Lectures on the Harvard classics, edited by W.A. Neilson.
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