The Harvard classics

1. The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The journal of John Woolman; Fruits of solitude [by] William Penn ...--2. Plato. The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito; The golden sayings of Epictetus; The meditations of Marcus Aurelius.--3. Bacon, Francis, viscount St. Albans. Essays, civil and moral, and The new Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on education, by John Milton; Religio medici, by Sir Thomas Browne.-4. Milton, John. The complete poems.--5. Emerson, Ralph W. Essays and English traits.--6. Burns, Robert. The poems and songs.--7. Augustinus Aurelius, Saint, bp. of Hippo. The confessions.; The imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, tr. by W. Benham.--8. Nine Greek dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes.--9. Cicero, M. Tullius. Letters, with his treaties of friendship and old age, and Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus.--10. Smith, Adam. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.--11. Darwin, Charles R. The origin of species