Harvard Classics Books

Othello

William Shakespeare

Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-marri..

The Iliad of Homer

William Cowper

Whether a translation of Homer may be best executed in blank verse or in rhyme, is a question in the decision of which no man can find difficulty, who has ever duly considered what translation ought t..

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

Perhaps Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poem, the "Raven" is a macabre exploration of a man, his memories of Lenore, and the black bird that interrupts his studies on a dark December night, with tap-tap..

Letters of Pliny

Pliny

The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and the Emperor Trajan. These letters are a unique testimony of..

The Analysis of Mind

Bertrand Russell

A neat work on philosophy of mind by the 20th century analytic philosopher Bertrand Russell. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathema..

Keats - Poems Published in 1820

John Keats

John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he produced some of the most famous poems in world literature...

The Story of Troy

Michael Clarke

The Story of Troy is a book for young readers to  make them understand the Great Epic classics of Homer written by Michael Clarke.In this book we are to tell the story of Troy, and particula..

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If we add in forerunners Burns and Blake, we have perhaps an un..