Harvard Classics

Egmont (Act I, Scene I), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Introductory Note: William Harvey

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey

Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe

Preface to Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

The Building of the Ship, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Thousand and One Nights (The Barber’s Fifth Brother)

Introductory Note: Thomas Moore