The Harvard Classics

The Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction
哈佛经典
Selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD

查尔斯.艾略特 选编

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哈佛经典(Harvard Classics)是一套五十一卷本的经典图书汇编。该套图书的编辑起源于哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·艾略特的“五尺书架”(Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf)理论:艾略特在一次演讲中说,人文教育可以通过每天花十五分钟阅读可以放在五英尺的书架上的经典图书获得(最初的说法是三英尺)。出版商P. F. Collier and Son看到了机会,遂请艾略特选择图书,“哈佛经典”于是成书,于1909年首次出版。

VOL. I. His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin
Journal, by John Woolman
Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
II. The Apology, Phædo and Crito of Plato
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
III. Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
Areopagitica & Tractate on Education, by John Milton
Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne
IV. Complete Poems Written in English, by John Milton
V. Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
VI. Poems and Songs, by Robert Burns
VII. The Confessions of Saint Augustine
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis
VIII. Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, The Furies & Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
Oedipus the King & Antigone of Sophocles
Hippolytus & The Bacchæ of Euripides
The Frogs of Aristophanes
IX. On Friendship, On Old Age & Letters, by Cicero
Letters, by Pliny the Younger
X. Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
XI. The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
XII. Lives, by Plutarch
XIII. Æneid, by Vergil
XIV. Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes
XV. The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan
The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton
XVI. Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
XVII. Fables, by Æsop
Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen
XVIII. All for Love, by John Dryden
The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith
The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Blot in the ’Scutcheon, by Robert Browning
Manfred, by Lord Byron
XIX. Faust, Part I, Egmont & Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe
Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
XX. The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
XXI. I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni
XXII. The Odyssey of Homer
XXIII. Two Years before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
XXIV. On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke
XXV. Autobiography & On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle
XXVI. Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille
Phædra, by Jean Racine
Tartuffe, by Molière
Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller
XXVII. English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
XXVIII. Essays: English and American
XXIX. The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
XXX. Scientific Papers
XXXI. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
XXXII. Literary and Philosophical Essays
XXXIII. Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern
XXXIV. Discourse on Method, by René Descartes
Letters on the English, by Voltaire
On the Inequality among Mankind & Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
XXXV. The Chronicles of Jean Froissart
The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory
A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison
XXXVI. The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
The Ninety-Five Thesis, Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther
XXXVII. Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume
XXXVIII. The Oath of Hippocrates
Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey
The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner
The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister
Scientific Papers, by Louis Pasteur
Scientific Papers, by Charles Lyell
XXXIX. Prefaces and Prologues
XL. English Poetry I: Chaucer to Gray
XLI. English Poetry II: Collins to Fitzgerald
XLII. English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman
XLIII. American Historical Documents: 1000–1904
XLIV. Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius
Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes
Christian I: Luke & Acts
XLV. Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns
Buddhist: Writings
Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita
Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran
XLVI. Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
XLVII. The Shoemaker’s Holiday, by Thomas Dekker
The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher
The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster
A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger
XLVIII. Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal
XLIX. Epic & Saga: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel & The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
LI. Lectures on the Harvard Classics
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
Bibliographic Record General Introduction Index to Criticisms and Interpretations
VOLS. I & II. The History of Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
III. A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
IV. Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott
V & VI. Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
VII. & VIII. David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
IX. The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
X. The Scarlet Letter & Rappaccini’s Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
Three Short Stories, by Edgar Allan Poe
Three Short Stories, by Francis Bret Harte
Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog, by Samuel L. Clemens
The Man without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale
XI. The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
XII. Notre Dame de Paris, by Victor Marie Hugo
XIII. Old Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac
The Devil’s Pool, by George Sand
The Story of a White Blackbird, by Alfred de Musset
Five Short Stories, by Alphonse Daudet
Two Short Stories, by Guy de Maupassant
XIV. & XV. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship & The Sorrows of Werther, by J. W. von Goethe
The Banner of the Upright Seven, by Gottfried Keller
The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm
Trials and Tribulations, by Theodor Fontane
XVI. & XVII. Anna Karenin & Ivan the Fool, by Leo Tolstoy
XVIII. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
XIX. A House of Gentlefolk & Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev
XX. Pepita Jimenez, by Juan Valera
A Happy Boy, by Björnstjerne Björnson
Skipper Worse, by Alexander L. Kielland

《哈佛经典》中文目录    

1
His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin
Journal, by John Woolman
Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn
《富兰克林自传》 []本杰明·富兰克林/
《乔治·沃尔曼日记》[] 乔治·沃尔曼/
《痛思录》[]威廉·配恩/

2
The Apology, Phado and Crito of Plato
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
《柏拉图对话录:辩解篇、菲多篇、克利多篇》[希腊]柏拉图/
《爱比克泰德金言录》[希腊] 爱比克泰德/
《沉思录》 [罗马] 马库思·奥勒留/

3
Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
Areopagitica & Tractate on Education, by John Milton
Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne
培根论说文集及新阿特兰蒂斯 []弗兰西斯·培根/
米尔顿论出版自由与教育 []约翰·米尔顿/
虔诚的医生 []托马斯·布朗爵士

4
Complete Poems Written in English, by John Milton
约翰·米尔顿英文诗全集 []约翰·米尔顿/

5
Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
《爱默生文集》[]拉夫·沃尔多·爱默生/

6
Poems and Songs, by Robert Burns
《伯恩斯诗歌集》 [苏格兰]罗伯特·伯恩斯/
7
The Confessions of Saint Augustine
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis

《忏悔录》圣奥古斯丁/
《效法基督》托玛斯·坎皮斯/

8
Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, The Furies & Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus
Oedipus the King & Antigone of Sophocles
Hippolytus & The Baccha of Euripides
The Frogs of Aristophanes
《希腊戏剧》埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯、尤里皮德斯、阿里斯托芬/

9
On Friendship, On Old Age & Letters, by Cicero
Letters, by Pliny the Younger
《论友谊、论老年及书信集》[罗马]西塞罗/
《书信集》[罗马](小)普林尼/

10
Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
《国富论》[]亚当·斯密/

11
The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
《物种起源论》[]查尔斯·达尔文/

12
Lives, by Plutarch
《比较列传》[希腊]普卢塔克/

13
AEneid, by Vergil
《伊尼亚德》[罗马]维吉尔/

14
Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes
《唐吉珂德》[西班牙]塞万提斯/

15
The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan
The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton
《天路历程》[]班扬/
《多恩与赫伯特生平》 []艾萨克·沃顿/

16
Stories from the Thousand and One Nights
《天方夜谭》[]爱德华·威廉·兰讷/

17
Fables, by Aesop
Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen
《民间传说与寓言》伊索、格林、安徒生/

18
All for Love, by John Dryden
The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith
The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Blot in the ‘Scutcheon, by Robert Browning
Manfred, by Lord Byron
《英国现代戏剧》 []德莱顿;谢里丹;歌德史密斯;雪莱;勃郎宁;拜伦

19
Faust, Part I, Egmont & Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe
Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
《浮士德(第一幕)》 []歌德/
《浮士德博士》 [] 克里思托福·马洛/

20
The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
《神曲》[]但丁/

21
I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni
《许婚的爱人》[]曼佐尼/

22
The Odyssey of Homer
《奥德赛》[希腊]荷马/

23
Two Years before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
《两年水手生涯》[](小)达纳/
24
On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke
《伯克文集》 []爱德蒙·伯克/

25
《穆勒文集》约翰·斯图亚特·穆勒/
《卡莱尔文集》托马斯·卡莱尔/
Autobiography & On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle

26
Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille
Phadra, by Jean Racine
Tartuffe, by Molière
Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller
《欧洲大陆戏剧》卡尔德隆;高乃依;拉辛;莫里哀;莱辛;席勒/

27
English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay
《英国名家随笔》菲利浦·锡德尼;本·简森;亚伯拉罕·考利;约瑟夫·爱迪生;里查德·斯迪尔;斯威夫特;丹尼尔·笛福;塞缪尔·约翰逊;休谟;西尼·史密斯;柯勒律治;威廉·哈兹利特;韩特;兰姆;德·昆西;雪莱;马库莱

28
Essays: English and American
《英国与美国名家随笔》萨克雷;纽曼;阿诺德;罗斯金;白芝皓;赫胥黎;佛里曼;斯蒂文森;钱宁;爱伦。坡;梭罗;洛威尔

29
The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
《比格尔号上的旅行》 [] 查尔·达尔文/

30
Scientific Papers
《科学论文集:物理学,化学;天文学;地质学》法拉第;赫姆霍尔兹;汤姆森;纽科姆;盖基/

31
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
《契里尼自传[]本维努托·契里尼/

32
Literary and Philosophical Essays
《文学和哲学名家随笔》(法国、德国、意大利卷)蒙田;布沃;勒南;拉辛;席勒;康德;马志尼;拜伦;歌德/

33
Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern
《古代和现代著名航海与旅行记》希罗多德;德雷克;吉尔伯特;雷利/

34
Discourse on Method, by René Descartes
Letters on the English, by Voltaire
On the Inequality among Mankind & Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
《法国和英国著名哲学家》笛卡尔;伏尔泰;罗素;霍布斯/

35
The Chronicles of Jean Froissart
The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory
A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison
《见闻与传奇》傅华萨;马洛尼;哈里森/

36
The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper
Utopia, by Sir Thomas More
The Ninety-Five Thesis, Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther
《君王论》马基雅维利/
《乌托邦》托马斯·莫尔/
《马丁·路德论文和演讲集》马丁·路德/

37
Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume
1718世纪英国著名哲学家》洛克;伯克利;休谟/
38
The Oath of Hippocrates
Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey
The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner
The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister
Scientific Papers, by Louis Pasteur
Scientific Papers, by Charles Lyell
《科学论文集:物理学、医学、外科学和地质学》帕雷;哈维;詹纳;霍姆斯;利斯特;巴斯德;赖尔/

39
Prefaces and Prologues
《名著之前言与序言》卡克斯顿;喀尔文;哥白尼;诺克斯;斯宾塞;莱利;培根;

40
English Poetry I: Chaucer to Gray
英文诗集(卷I):从乔叟到格雷

41
English Poetry II: Collins to Fitzgerald
英文诗集(卷II):从科林斯到费兹杰拉德

42
English Poetry II: Collins to Fitzgerald
英文诗集(卷III):从丁尼生到惠特曼

43
American Historical Documents: 1000-1904
美国历史文件:1000-1904

44
Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius
Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes
Christian I: Luke & Acts
圣书(卷一):孔子;希伯来书;基督圣经(I

45
Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns
Buddhist: Writings
Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita
Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran
圣书(卷二):基督圣经(II);佛陀;印度教;穆罕默德

46
Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
伊利莎白时期戏剧(卷I):
爱德华二世马洛/
哈姆雷特,利尔王,麦克白,暴风骤雨莎士比亚/

47
The Shoemaker’s Holiday, by Thomas Dekker
The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher
The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster
A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger
伊利莎白时期戏剧(卷II):德克;约翰逊;博蒙特;佛莱彻;韦伯斯特;马辛加/

48
Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal
帕斯卡文集帕斯卡/

49
Epic & Saga: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel & The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
史诗与传说
贝奥武甫
罗兰之歌
鞑德嘎旅店的毁灭
沃尔松和尼贝龙根之歌

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Lectures on the Harvard Classics
哈佛经典讲座