Delphi Collected Works of John Aubrey (Illustrated)

by John Aubrey

2025 · Delphi Classics

The antiquarian and biographer John Aubrey is best known for vivid, intimate and at times acerbic sketches of his famous seventeenth century contemporaries. His celebrated ‘Brief Lives’ are not biographies in the strict sense, being based on observation and gossip, offering engaging portraits that are graced by picturesque and revealing detail. Winning great acclaim with later generations, they include revealing stories of such figures as Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Halley, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes and William Shakespeare. This eBook presents Aubrey’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Aubrey’s life and works * Concise introductions to the texts * All the major works, with individual contents tables * Andrew Clark’s celebrated 1898 edition of the ‘Brief Lives’, with Clark’s original hyperlinked footnotes * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Features a brief biography CONTENTS: The Works The Natural History of Wiltshire (1691) Miscellanies (1696) Brief Lives (1697) The Biography John Aubrey (1900) by Richard Garnett

The Complete Harvard Classics (2022 Edition)

by Plato, Immanuel Kant, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Epictetus, John Ruskin, Homer, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, John Milton, William Penn, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Woolman, Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich von Schiller, Cicero, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Edgar Alan Poe

2023 · DigiCat

E-artnow presents to you the complete edition of the world famous collection of Harvard Classics. The collection was created by Harvard University President, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, a firm believer in freedom of education and self improvement. He based the selection of works on the required reading at Harvard, literature classics anyone should read and learn from, the books of history's greatest creative minds for every person to get inspired from. The first Harvard Classics Collection consisted of 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature which showed the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction of all time. This updated edition is meticulously edited and formatted to the highest digital standards with the text made to fit and adapt to every possible type of eReader. Each book has its own interactive table of contents, interactive footnotes and explanations. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Robert Burns V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas V. 9: Cicero and Pliny V. 10: The Wealth of Nations V. 11: The Origin of Species V. 12: Plutarchs V. 13: Æneid V. 14: Don Quixote V. 15: Bunyan & Walton V. 16: 1001 Nights V. 17: Folklore & Fable V. 18: Modern English Drama V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe V. 20: The Divine Comedy V. 21: I Promessi Sposi V. 22: The Odyssey V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast V. 24: Edmund Burke V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle V. 26: Continental Drama V. 27 & 28: English & American Essays V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle V. 30: Scientific Papers V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays V. 33: Voyages & Travels V. 34: French & English Philosophers V. 35: Chronicle and Romance V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur V. 39: Prologues V. 40–42: English Poetry V. 43: American Historical Documents V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama V. 48: Blaise Pascal V. 49: Saga V. 50: Reader's Guide V. 51: Lectures The Shelf of Fiction: V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice...