Faust, Part I, Egmont & Hermann, Dorothea, Dr. Faustus
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von / Marlowe, Christopher / Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics, " this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, " it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by rea...