Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf." Volume 8 contains 6 Continental (European) Dramas. Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca Polyeucte by Pierre Corneille Phèdre by Jean Baptiste Racine Tartuffe by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing William Tell by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller