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.
12. Plutarchus. Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Caesar and Anthony --
13. Vergilius Maro, Publius. Virgil's Aeneid --
14. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de --
15. Bunyan, John. Pilgrim's progress; The lives of John Donne and George Herbert, by Izaak Walton --
16. Arabian nights. Stories from the Thousand and one nights --
17. Folk-lore and fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen --
18. Modern English drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Byron --
19. Goethe, Johann W. von. Faust, part I, Egmont, Hermann and Dorothea; Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus --
20. Dante Alighieri. The Divine comedy; Hell, Purgatory, Paradise --
21. Manzoni, Alessandro. I promessi sposi (The betrothed) --
22. Homerus. The Odyssey --
23. Dana, Richard H. Two years before the mast and Twenty-four years after --
24. Burke, Edmund. On taste, On the sublime and beautiful, Reflections on the French revolution, A letter to a noble lord.
25. Mill, John S. Autobiography, Essay on liberty; Thomas Carlyle: Characteristics, Inaugural addresses, Essay on Scott --
26. Continental drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Lessing, Schiller --
27. English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay ... [c1910] --
28. Essays, English and American --
29. Darwin, Charles R. The voyage of the Beagle --
30. Scientific papers: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology --
31. The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini --
32. Literary and philosophical essays, French, German and Italian --
33. Voyages and travels; ancient and modern --
34. French and English philosophers Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes --
35. Chronicle and romance Froissart, Malory, Holinshed --
36. Machiavelli, Niccolo. The prince; Utopia / by Sir Thomas More; Ninety-five theses, Address to the German nobility, Concerning Christian liberty / by Martin Luther --
37. English philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Locke, Berkeley, Hume --
38. Scientific papers: physiology, medicine, surgery, geology --
39. Prefaces and prologues to famous books --
43. American historical documents, 1000-1904 --
44-45. Sacred writings --
46-47. Elizabethan drama.
48. Pascal, Blaise. Thoughts; Letters; minor works --
49. Epic and saga: Beowulf; the song of Roland; The destruction of Dá Derga's hostel; The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs --
50. The Harvard classics. The editor's introduction; reader's guide; index to the first lines of poems, songs & choruses, hymns & psalms; general index; chronological index.
