Harvard on the Beach
Books | Philosophy / History & Surveys / General
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Thomas Carlyle
Plato
Charles Darwin
Dante Alighieri
Euripides
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charles Lamb
Samuel Johnson
John Stuart Mill
David Hume
Joseph Addison
Leigh Hunt
Epictetus
Thomas De Quincey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jonathan Swift
Christopher Marlowe
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
William Hazlitt
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Daniel Defoe
Aesop
Richard Henry Dana
John Dryden
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
John Ruskin
Robert Burns
David Garrick
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Izaak Walton
John Bunyan
Homer
Edmund Burke
Plutarch
Molière
Aeschylus
Sophocles
William Makepeace Thackeray
Benjamin Franklin
Pierre Corneille
Jean Racine
Robert Browning
Oliver Goldsmith
John Milton
Aristophanes
Virgil
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
William Penn
Philip Sidney
Francis Bacon
Adam Smith
Alessandro Manzoni
Abraham Cowley
Ben Jonson
John Woolman
Sydney Smith
Marcus Aurelius
Hans Christian Andersen
George Gordon Byron
Thomas à Kempis
Richard Steele
Thomas Browne
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Miguel de Cervantes
Friedrich von Schiller
Pliny the Younger
Saint Augustine
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