Harvard Classics Books
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's Dream is one of William Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. It portrays events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, and the..
Little Men
Louisa May AlcottLittle Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the..
Mansfield Park
Jane AustenMansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel featuring one Fanny Price, a young woman with no social power. She barely exists, even to the people she knows - and her family generally keeps in her place...
The Pilgrim's Progress
John BunyanThe Pilgrim's Progress (from This World to That Which Is to Come) is a work of religious literature by John Bunyan, published in 1678. For a time, Pilgrim's Progress was the "other book" in the Christ..
Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 2
William WordsworthPoems in Two Volumes has been considered to be the peak of Wordsworth's power, and of his popularity. However, it was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries, including Lord Byron, whom Wordswo..
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
AeschylusAgamemnon is the first of the three linked tragedies which make up The Oresteia trilogy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, followed by “The Libation Bearers” and “The Eumenides”. The trilogy a..