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The Complete Harvard Classics 2024 Edition [newly updated]

by Benjamin Franklin, Plato, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas á Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Cicero, Adam Smith, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Anonymous, Aesop, Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Philiip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Confucius, Christian, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland ...

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This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

by Thomas Carlyle ...

We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what ideas men formed of them, what work they did; - on Heroes, namely, and on their reception and performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs. Too evidently this is a large topic; deserving quite other ... Read more

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We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what ideas men formed of them, what work they did; - on Heroes, namely, and on their reception and performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs. Too evidently this is a large topic; deserving quite other
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia

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by Thomas Carlyle ...

Frederick the Great, Volume 18 thrusts readers into the opening convulsions of the Seven Years' War, where Frederick of Prussia finds himself suddenly surrounded by enemies and forced into ceaseless movement. Carlyle traces the great campaigns and shocks of the period—Prague, Kolin, Rossbach, Leuthen, Zorndorf, and Hochkirch—showing Frederick as a brilliant but overburdened commander fighting not ... Read more

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Frederick the Great, Volume 18 thrusts readers into the opening convulsions of the Seven Years' War, where Frederick of Prussia finds himself suddenly surrounded by enemies and forced into ceaseless movement. Carlyle traces the great campaigns and shocks of the period—Prague, Kolin, Rossbach, Leuthen, Zorndorf, and Hochkirch—showing Frederick as a brilliant but overburdened commander fighting not
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia

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by Thomas Carlyle ...

In this vivid royal tour of the Prussian countryside, Frederick the Great appears not as a distant conqueror but as an aging, tireless ruler bent on making land yield, villages prosper, and people answer for the state they keep. Guided by Oberamtmann Fromme on the 23 July 1779 journey through the Rhyn-Luch, the king inspects reclaimed moorlands, colonies, roads, timber, cattle, and drainage works ... Read more

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In this vivid royal tour of the Prussian countryside, Frederick the Great appears not as a distant conqueror but as an aging, tireless ruler bent on making land yield, villages prosper, and people answer for the state they keep. Guided by Oberamtmann Fromme on the 23 July 1779 journey through the Rhyn-Luch, the king inspects reclaimed moorlands, colonies, roads, timber, cattle, and drainage works
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia

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by Thomas Carlyle ...

In the grim middle years of the Seven Years' War, Carlyle follows Frederick the Great as Prussia is pressed by Austria, Russia, France, and their allies, while campaigns from Bergen and Züllichau to Kunersdorf and Dresden grind men and kingdoms alike toward exhaustion. 1759 emerges as a year of stark contrast: glorious for Pitt, disastrous for Frederick, whose greatness now lies not in dazzling ... Read more

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In the grim middle years of the Seven Years' War, Carlyle follows Frederick the Great as Prussia is pressed by Austria, Russia, France, and their allies, while campaigns from Bergen and Züllichau to Kunersdorf and Dresden grind men and kingdoms alike toward exhaustion. 1759 emerges as a year of stark contrast: glorious for Pitt, disastrous for Frederick, whose greatness now lies not in dazzling
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia

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by Thomas Carlyle ...

In the volatile court of Frederick the Great's youth, marriage becomes a weapon of state and a family crisis all at once. As Berlin and Dresden swirl with dynastic ambition, English envoys, and Saxon pageantry, Wilhelmina watches her brother Fritz move from brief rebellion to dangerous confinement, while the Prussian household strains under fear, illness, and suspicion. A proposed alliance with ... Read more

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In the volatile court of Frederick the Great's youth, marriage becomes a weapon of state and a family crisis all at once. As Berlin and Dresden swirl with dynastic ambition, English envoys, and Saxon pageantry, Wilhelmina watches her brother Fritz move from brief rebellion to dangerous confinement, while the Prussian household strains under fear, illness, and suspicion. A proposed alliance with
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Early Kings of Norway

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by Thomas Carlyle ...

Thomas Carlyle's vivid historical chronicle opens with the making of Norway itself: Harald Haarfagr's legendary rise from ambitious lover to first unifier of the realm, his vow to win Gyda and the kingdom before cutting his hair, and his hard conquest of the rival jarls. From there the narrative widens to the restless Norse age of expansion, evoking the settlements of Iceland, the Faroes, and ... Read more

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Thomas Carlyle's vivid historical chronicle opens with the making of Norway itself: Harald Haarfagr's legendary rise from ambitious lover to first unifier of the realm, his vow to win Gyda and the kingdom before cutting his hair, and his hard conquest of the rival jarls. From there the narrative widens to the restless Norse age of expansion, evoking the settlements of Iceland, the Faroes, and
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History of Friedrich II of Prussia

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by Thomas Carlyle ...

At Reinsberg, the Crown Prince Friedrich enters the happiest chapter of his life: a newly purchased and carefully remodeled country seat where marriage, music, learning, and orderly companionship briefly come into perfect balance. Carlyle presents the old feudal residence transformed into an elegant palace by economical, practical stewardship, its quadrangular plan, towers, moat, lakefront setting ... Read more

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At Reinsberg, the Crown Prince Friedrich enters the happiest chapter of his life: a newly purchased and carefully remodeled country seat where marriage, music, learning, and orderly companionship briefly come into perfect balance. Carlyle presents the old feudal residence transformed into an elegant palace by economical, practical stewardship, its quadrangular plan, towers, moat, lakefront setting
... Read more
Latter-day Pamphlets

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by Thomas Carlyle ...

Thomas Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets is a fierce, ironic political meditation on the convulsions of 1848 and the deeper crisis of modern Europe. It begins with "the Present Time" as a decisive moral test, warning that public events must be read truthfully or their meaning will be lost. From there Carlyle traces the startling rise of a "Reforming Pope" who tries to govern by honesty and the New ... Read more

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Thomas Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets is a fierce, ironic political meditation on the convulsions of 1848 and the deeper crisis of modern Europe. It begins with "the Present Time" as a decisive moral test, warning that public events must be read truthfully or their meaning will be lost. From there Carlyle traces the startling rise of a "Reforming Pope" who tries to govern by honesty and the New
... Read more
History of Friedrich II of Prussia

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by Thomas Carlyle ...

In the years after his victories, Frederick the Great enters a quieter but no less revealing phase of rule: a halcyon peace shadowed by future war, court intrigue, and the hard work of rebuilding Prussia. Carlyle follows the king from his 1746 journey to Pyrmont and his practical efforts to restore ruined towns and villages to the larger drama of a ruler determined to replace chaos with order, ... Read more

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In the years after his victories, Frederick the Great enters a quieter but no less revealing phase of rule: a halcyon peace shadowed by future war, court intrigue, and the hard work of rebuilding Prussia. Carlyle follows the king from his 1746 journey to Pyrmont and his practical efforts to restore ruined towns and villages to the larger drama of a ruler determined to replace chaos with order,
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Tales by Musæus, Tieck, Richter

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by Thomas Carlyle ...

Thomas Carlyle's translations gather a remarkable sweep of German storytelling in one volume, moving from enchanted romance and eerie folklore to comic observation and reflective satire. Musaeus, Tieck, and Jean Paul Friedrich Richter each contribute tales that explore love, illusion, destiny, folly, and the contrast between war and peace, creating a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century ... Read more

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Thomas Carlyle's translations gather a remarkable sweep of German storytelling in one volume, moving from enchanted romance and eerie folklore to comic observation and reflective satire. Musaeus, Tieck, and Jean Paul Friedrich Richter each contribute tales that explore love, illusion, destiny, folly, and the contrast between war and peace, creating a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century
... Read more
History of Friedrich II of Prussia

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by Thomas Carlyle ...

Thomas Carlyle's portrait of Frederick the Great begins not with triumph, but with childhood: a boy shaped by two rival worlds, the polished French household of his nurses and governesses, and the harsh German-Prussian court of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I. Carlyle laments how badly history has blurred those early years, then restores them through vivid details of Madame de Roucoulles, the ... Read more

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Thomas Carlyle's portrait of Frederick the Great begins not with triumph, but with childhood: a boy shaped by two rival worlds, the polished French household of his nurses and governesses, and the harsh German-Prussian court of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I. Carlyle laments how badly history has blurred those early years, then restores them through vivid details of Madame de Roucoulles, the
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