Charles W Eliot, ed., Harvard Classics [1910; 1917]
246 entries: 135 monographical, 111 otherwise
Unranked—arranged topically
Charles W. Eliot's Harvard Classics: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books is one of the two popular sets of "great books" that left an indelible mark on U. S. culture in the Twentieth Century, alongside the Great Books of the Western World, a project that aimed to surpass Eliot's series. At various spots online, not least the My Harvard Classics site, one can download full-text scans of the original 51-volume set published in 1909; some of those sites also have the accompanying 20-volume Shelf of Fiction published in 1917. The listing below follows the order of the set, with those fictional works last.
- Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
French translation published 1791 as Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin; first-third parts of the original English published 1818 as volume one of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin; original English published in its entirety, 1868—English
- John Woolman
The Journal of John Woolman
1774—English
William Penn
- Some Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Related to the Conduct of Human Life. Part 1
1693—English
- More Fruits of Solitude, Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims, Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
1702—English
Plato
- Apologia Socratis
The Apology
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
- Crito
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
- Phaedo
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
1903; excerpts from The Discourses; English translations by Hastings Crossley; Second Century—Greek
- Marcus Aurelius
Ta Eis Heauton
Meditations
written 161-80—Greek
George Long
—English
- 'The Philosophy of Antoninus'
—English
Francis Bacon
- Essays: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed
1597; expanded 1612; expanded and retitled Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, 1625—English
- Nova Atlantis
1624—English
John Milton
- Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England
1644—English
- On Education
originally anonymously published 1644—English
- Thomas Browne
Religio Medici
1643—English
John Milton
- The Complete Poems of John Milton
1910; volume 4 of the Harvard Classics; includes Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes; Seventeenth Century—English
- Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674—English
- Paradise Regained, a Poem, in IV Books, to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes
1671—English
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Essays and English Traits
1910; volume 5 of the Harvard Classics; includes An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge [1837; later retitled The American Scholar]; English Traits [1856]; and selections from Essays: First Series [1841] and Essays: Second Series [1844]—English
- The American Scholar
originally entitled, An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, published 1837—English
- English Traits
1856—English
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
1910; volume 6 of the Harvard Classics—English
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98—Latin
- Thomas á Kempis
De Imitatione Christi
The Imitation of Christ
written ca. 1418-27—Latin
Aeschylus
- Oresteia
The House of Atreus
458 B C—Greek
- Promētheus Desmōtēs
Prometheus Bound
disputed authorship; Fifth Century B C—Greek
Sophocles
- Oidipous Tyrannos
Oedipus Rex; Oedipus the King
ca. 429 B C—Greek
- Antigone
ca. 441 B C—Greek
Euripides
- Hippolytos
428 B C—Greek
- Bakchai
The Bacchae
405 B C—Greek
- Aristophanes
Bátrachoi
The Frogs
405 B C—Greek
Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Laelius de Amicitia
written 44 B C—Latin
- Cato Major de Senectute
written 44 B C—Latin
First Century B C—Latin
Epistulae [selections]
First Century—Latin
- Adam Smith
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
1776; revised through third edition, 1784—English
- Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
1859—English
Bìoi Paràllēloi [excerpted]
Parallel Lives; Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
'Themistocles'; 'Pericles'; 'Aristides'; 'Alcibiades'; 'Coriolanus'; 'Demosthenes'; 'Cicero'; 'Caesar'; 'Antony'; First Century—Greek
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid
First Century B C—Latin
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha [first volume]
Don Quixote
1605; second volume published 1615—Spanish
- John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come
1678—English
Izaak Walton
- 'The Life of Dr. John Donne'
part of Walton's Lives—English
- 'The Life of Mr. George Herbert'
part of Walton's Lives—English
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- Kitab alf Laylah Wa-Laylah
The Thousand and One Nights; The Arabian Nights
Ninth-Fifteenth centuries—Arabic
Fables [excerpted]
ca. late Seventh-early Sixth centuries B C—Greek
Selected stories
Nineteenth Century—German
Hans Christian Andersen
among its selections, the Harvard Classics volume includes the 1838 noted below in its entirety; Nineteenth Century—Danish
- Eventyr, Fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Første Hefte
Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. First Booklet
1838; part of the author's collected fables—Danish
- John Dryden
All for Love; or, The World Well Lost
1677—English
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
School for Scandal
1777—English
- Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer
1773—English
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cenci
1819—English
- Robert Browning
Bells and Pomegrantes No. IV: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon
1843—English
- Lord Byron (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
Manfred
1817—English
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil
first of two volumes of Faust; published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second volume, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832
- Egmont
1788—German
- Hermann und Dorothea
1798—German
- Christopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
1592—English
- Dante
La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian
- Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi Sposi
The Betrothed
1827—Italian
- Homer
Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years Before the Mast
1840; revised and expanded 1869—English
Edmund Burke
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
1757—English
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790—English
- A Letter From the Right Hon. Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord
1796—English
John Stuart Mill
- Autobiography
1873—English
- On Liberty
1859—English
Thomas Carlyle
originally published Dec. 1831 in the Edinburgh Review; included in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1838—English
- Inaugural Address at Edinburgh, April 2nd, 1866
1866—English
- 'Memories of the Life of Scott'
originally published Jan. 1838 in London and Westminster Review; included in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1838—English
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
La Vida es Sueño
Life Is a Dream
1635—Spanish
- Pierre Corneille
Polyeucte
1643—French
- Jean Racine
Phèdre
1677—French
- Molière
Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur
1664—French
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Minna von Barnhelm Oder das Soldatenglück
1767—German
- Friedrich Schiller
Wilhelm Tell
1804—German
- Philip Sidney
Defence of Poesie
1595—English
Explorata, Timber or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter [excerpted]
'On Shakespeare'; 'On Bacon'; complete work published 1641—English
'Of Agriculture'
—English
Joseh Addison
—English
—English
'Of the Club'
'The Spectator Club'
originally published Mar. 1711 in the Spectator—English
Jonathan Swift
- 'Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation'
—English
- 'A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding'
—English
- A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet: Together With a Proposal for the Encouragement of Poetry in This Kingdom
1721—English
- Journal to Stella [excerpted]
'On the Death of Esther Johnson'—English
Daniel Defoe
- The Shortest-Way With the Dissenters: Or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
1702—English
—English
'Life of Addison, 1672-1719'
—English
'Of the Standard of Taste'
—English
'Fallacies of Anti-Reformers'
—English
'On Poesy or Art'
edited 1818 lecture; originally published 1836 in Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge—English
'Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen'
originally published 1836 in Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt; also included in Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There, 1839—English
Leigh Hunt
- 'Deaths of Little Children'
originally published in the Indicator—English
- 'On the Realities of Imagination'
—English
'On the Tragedies of Shakespeare'
originally published 1811 in the Reflector—English
'Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow'
originally published Jun. 1845 in Blackwood's; part of Suspiria de Profundis—English
'A Defence of Poetry'
written 1821; originally published 1840 in Essays, Letters From Abroad, Translations and Fragments—English
- Thomas Macaulay (Lord Macaulay)
'Machiavelli'
originally published 1827 in the Edinburgh Review—English
- William Makepeace Thackeray
'Jonathan Swift'
—English
- John Henry Newman
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated
1873; originally published in two parts: The Scope and Nature of University Education—originally published 1852, with two alternate titles: Discourses on University Education, and Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education, then retitled and revised in 1859; and Lectures and Essays on University Subjects, 1859—English
'The Study of Poetry'
introduction to The English Poets—English
- John Ruskin
Sesame and Lilies
two edited 1864 lectures, 'Of Kings' Treasures' and 'Of Queens' Gardens'; published 1865; second edition that year includes preface; revised, with new preface and essay 'The Mystery of Life and Its Art', 1871; 'Mystery' essay removed and another new preface added for 1882 edition—English
'John Milton'
originally published Jul. 1859 in the National Review—Latin
'Science and Culture'
edited lecture, 1 Oct. 1880; included in Science and Culture: Collected Essays, 1881—English
'Race and Language'
originally published Feb. 1877 in the Contemporary Review, Feb. 1877; revised version, in Historical Essays, Third Series [1879], includes portions of 'The Geographical Aspect of the Eastern Question', originally published Jan. 1877 in the Fortnightly Review—English
Robert Louis Stevenson
originally published May 1879 in Cornhill Magazine; included in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, 1881 as the fourth of four essays collectively entitled 'Virginibus Puerisque'—English
originally published Jul. 1881 in Cornhill Magazine; included in Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 1882—English
'On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes'
1840—English
'The Poetic Principle'
originally published Aug. 1850 in the Home Journal and Oct. 1850 in the Union Magazine of Literature and Art—English
Excursions [excerpted]
'Walking'; complete work published 1863—English
'The President's Policy'
originally anonymously published Jan. 1864 in the North American Review; included in Political Essays, 1888—English
- On Democracy
1884; edited lecture—English
- Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle
originally published 1838 as Journal and Remarks, 1832-1835, volume three of Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Eagle; also published that year as Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H M S Beagle; revised 1845—English
Michael Faraday
- A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter and Their Relations to Each Other
edited 1859 lectures; originally published in the Chemical News, 1860; book version published the same year—English
- The Chemical History of a Candle
edited 1848 lectures; originally published 1861 in the Chemical News; book version, entitled A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle: To Which Is Added a Lecture on Platinum (that lecture having been published in the Chemical News as 'On Platinum' the same year) also published 1861; 'On Platinum' removed for some later editions—English
Hermann von Helmholtz
- 'On the Conservation of Force'
—English
—English
William Thomson
- 'The Wave Theory of Light'
—English
—English
- Simon Newcomb
The Extent of the Universe
1884—English
'Geographical Evolution'
lecture delivered 24 Mar. 1879; included in Geographical Sketches at Home and Abroad—English
- Benvenuto Cellini
Vita di Benvenuto di Maestro Giovanni Cellini Fiorentino, Scritta, per Lui Medesimo, in Firenze
Autobiography
written 1558-62—Italian
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
included in Causeries du Lundi—French
1850; included in Causeries du Lundi—French
'La Poèsie des Races Celtiques'
included in Essais de Morale et de Critique, 1859—French
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts
1780—German
- Friedrich Schiller
Über die Äthetische Erziehung des Menschen in Einer Reihe von Briefen
1794—German
- Immanuel Kant
Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Ethics
1785; revised 1786—German
'Byron and Goethe'
originally published 1839 in Monthly Chronicle—
Historiē [excerpted]
History
'An Account of Egypt'; Fifth Century B C—Greek
De Origine et Situ Germanorum [excerpted]
Germania
unspecified selection; written ca. 98—Latin
Sir Francis Drake Revived
—English
Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World
—English
Drake's Great Armada
—English
- Edward Hayes
A Narrative of the Expedition of Sir Humfrey Gylberte in 1583 for the Planting of a Colony in America, as Given by Captain Edward Haies, a Distinguished Member of the Expedition
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
—English
- Walter Raleigh
The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana
The Discovery of Guiana
1596—English
- René Descartes
Discours de la Méthode Pour Bien Conduire sa Raison, et Chercher la Vérité dans les Sciences
Discourse on the Method
1637—French
- Voltaire
Lettres Philosophiques
Letters Concerning the English Nation
English translation, 1733; French original, 1734; revised 1778—English
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Discours sur l'Origine et les Fondements de l'Inégalité Parmi les Hommes
Discourse on Inequality
1755—French
- Émile, ou de l'Éducation [excerpted]
'Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar'; complete work published 1762—French
Leviathan or, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil [excerpted]
'Of Man'; complete published 1651—English
- Jean Froissart
Chroniques
written 1369-1400—French
Le Morte d'Arthur [excerpted]
'The Holy Grail'; complete work published 1485; revised through sixth edition, 1634—English
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- Holinsheds Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland [excerpted]
'A Description of Elizabethan England Written by William Harrison'; complete work originally published in two volumes, 1577; revised 1587—English
- Niccolò Machiavelli
Il Principe
The Prince
1532—Italian
- William Roper
The Life of Sir Thomas More
1626—English
- Thomas More
Libellus Uere Aureus, nec Minus Salutaris Quam Festivus, de Optimo rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia
Utopia
1516—Latin
Martin Luther
- Disputatio pro Declaratione Virtutis Indulgentiarum
The Ninety-Five Theses; Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
1517—Latin
- An den Christlichen Adel Deutscher Nation
Address to the Christian Nobility
1520—German
- Von der Freiheit Eines Christenmenschen
The Freedom of a Christian; A Treatise on Christian Liberty
1520—German
- John Locke
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
1693—English
- George Berkeley (Bishop Berkeley)
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists
1713—English
- David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
1748—English
Hippocratic Corpus [excerpted]
The Oath of Hippocrates; The Law of Hippocrates; late Fifth-early Fourth centuries B C—Greek
- Ambroise Paré
The Apologie and Treatise Containing the Voyages Made to Divers Places
Latin
- William Harvey
Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
1628—Latin
Edward Jenner
- An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
1798—English
- Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox
1799—English
- A Continuation of Facts and Observations relative to the Variolae Vaccinae
1800—English
'The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever'
originally published 1843 in the New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine; included in Medical Essays, 1855—English
- Joseph Lister (Lord Lister)
'On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery'
edited lecture, 9 Aug. 1867; published Sep. 1867 in Lancet—English
Louis Pasteur
- The Physiological Theory of Fermentation
1879—French
- 'The Germ Theory and Its Application to Medicine and Surgery'
edited lecture, 29 Apr.1878; published in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences—French
- 'On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases'
edited lecture, 3 May 1880; published in Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences—French
Principles of Geology [excerpted]
'Prejudices Which Have Retarded the Progress of Geology'; 'Uniformity in the Series of Past Changes in the Animate and Inanimate World'—English
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- Famous Prefaces (Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books)
Volume 39 of Harvard Classics—English
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- English Poetry From Chaucer to Grey
Volume 40 of Harvard Classics—English
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- English Poetry From Collins to Fitzgerald
Volume 41 of Harvard Classics—English
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- English Poetry From Tennyson to Whitman
Volume 42 of Harvard Classics—English
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- American Historical Documents From 1000 to 1904
Volume 43 of Harvard Classics—English
- Confucius (Kǒng Zǐ) (Kǒng Fūzǐ) (K'ung Fu-tzu)
Analects
Lún Yǔ
written and compiled by the author's pupils; ca. Fifth Century B C-Second Century—Chinese
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part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- The Gospel According to Luke
part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- First Epistle to the Corinthians
part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- Second Epistle to the Corinthians
part of the Bible—Hebrew; Aramaic; Greek
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- "Hymns of the Christian Church"
—varied
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English translations by Henry Clarke Warren—
Bhagavad Gita
part of the Mahabharata; ca. Ninth Century B C-Fourth Century—Sanskrit
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- Quran (Koran) [excerpted]
Lubbock does not specify his selections; Eliot's Harvard Classics presents a selection edited and translated by E H Palmer; Seventh Century—Arabic
- Christopher Marlowe
Edward II
1593—English
William Shakespeare
- Hamlet
1602—English
- King Lear
1606—English
- Macbeth
ca. 1607—English
- The Tempest
1611—English
- Thomas Dekker
The Shoemaker's Holiday
1599—English
- Ben Jonson
The Alchemist
1610—English
- John Fletcher; Francis Beaumont
Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding
1610—English
- John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi
ca. 1613-14—English
- Philip Massinger
A New Way to Pay Old Debts
1626—English
Blaise Pascal
- Pensées
Thoughts
1669—French
Seventeenth Century—French
Seventeenth Century—French
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- Beowulf
ca. Eighth-Eleventh centuries—English
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- La Chanson de Roland
ca. Eleventh Century—French
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- Togail Bruidne Dá Derga
The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel
part of the Ulster Cycle—Irish
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- Nibelungenlied
ca. Twelfth-Thirteenth centuries—German
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- Volsunga Saga
ca. Thirteenth Century—Norse
- Certain Songs From the Elder Saga
selections; Thirteenth Century—Norse
- Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1749—English
- Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
1768—English
- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
originally anonymously published 1813—English
- Walter Scott
Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer
originally anonymously published 1815—English
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
originally published serially Jan. 1847-Jul. 1848—English
- Charles Dickens
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account)
originally published serially May 1849-Nov. 1850—English
- George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss
1860—English
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Scarlet Letter
1850—English
included in Mosses From an Old Manse, 1846—English—English
Washington Irving
- 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'
part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848
part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published serially Jun. 1819-Jul. 1820, expanded 1848
Edgar Allan Poe
originally published 1842 in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present; revised for inclusion in the Broadway Journal, May 1845—English
originally published 1844 in the The Gift for 1845; included in Tales, 1845—English
- 'The Fall of the House of Usher'
originally published Sep. 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine; revised for inclusion in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 1840—English
Bret Harte
- 'The Luck of Roaring Camp'
originally published Aug. 1868 in Overland Monthly—English
- 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat'
originally published Jan. 1869 in Overland Monthly—English
originally published Dec. 1869 in Overland Monthly—English
'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'
originally entitled 'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog', published Nov. 1865 in the Saturday Press; retitled and revised for inclusion in the Californian, Dec. 1865—English
'The Man Without a Country'
—English
- Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady
originally published serially Oct. 1880-Nov. 1881 in Macmillan's and Nov. 1880-Dec. 1881 in the Atlantic Monthly—English
- Victor Hugo
Notre-Dame de Paris
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1831—French
- Honoré de Balzac
Le Père Goriot
Father Goriot
originally published serially Dec. 1834-Feb. 1835 in Revue de Paris—French
- George Sand
La Mare au Diable
1846—French
- Alfred de Musset
Histoire d'un Merle Blanc
1842—French
Alphonse Daudet
- 'Contes du Lundi: Le Siège de Berlin'
originally published Jul. 1871 in Le Soir; title shortened to Le Siège de Berlin for inclusion in Lettres à un Absent, 1871; also included in expanded version of Contes du Lundi, 1878—French
- 'Contes du Lundi: L'Enfant Espion'
originally published Jul. 1871 in Le Soir; title shortened to 'L'Enfant Espion' for inclusion in Lettres à un Absent, 1871; also included in expanded version of Contes du Lundi, 1878—French
- 'Contes du Lundi: La Partie de Billard'
originally published Sep. 1871 in Le Soir; title shortened to 'La Partie de Billard' for inclusion in Contes du Lundi, 1873—French
- 'La Dernière Classe, Récit d'un Petit Alsacien'
originally published May 1872 in Le Soir; titled shortened to 'La Dernière Classe' for inclusion in Contes du Lundi, 1873—French
- 'Contes du Lundi: Le Zouave'
originally published Jul. 1872 in Le Soir; retitled 'Le Mauvais Zouave' for inclusion in Contes du Lundi, 1873—French
Guy de Maupassant
- 'L'Aventure de Walter Schnaffs'
originally published Apr. 1883 in Le Gaulois—French
originally published Feb. 1883 in Gil Blas—French
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
1795-96—German
- Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers
The Sorrows of Young Werther
1774; revised 1787—German
- Gottfried Keller
Das Fähnlein der Sieben Aufrechten
originally published in Deutschen Volkskalender, 1860—German
- Theodor Storm
Der Schimmelreiter
1888—German
- Theodor Fontane
Irrungen, Wirrungen
1888—German
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
published in part serially 1873-7 in Rússkij Véstnik; in its entirety, 1877—Russian
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Prestuplénie i Nakazániye
Crime and Punishment
originally published serially Jan.-Dec. 1866 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian
Ivan Turgenev
- Dvorânskoe Gnezdo
Home of the Gentry; Liza
originally published in Sovremennik, Jan. 1859—Russian
- Otcy i Deti
Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons
originally published Feb. 1862 in Rússkij Véstnik—Russian
- Juan Valera
Pepita Jiménez
originally published serially 1874 in Revista de España—Spanish
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
En Glad Gut
A Happy Boy
1860—Norwegian
- Alexander Kielland
Skipper Worse
1882—Norwegian