Great Books of the Western World: 54 Volume Set

Great Books of the Western World: 54 Volume Set

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Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins & Mortimer J. Adler
Binding: Hardback
Published: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1986

Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings

Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. It presents the great books in 54 volumes, selected based on their relevance to contemporary matters and significance in the context of Western Civilization. v. 1. The syntopicon, I --v. 2. The syntopicon, II --v. 3. Homer ; The Iliad ; The Odyssey --v. 4. Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; Aristophanes --v. 5. Herodotus; Thucydides --v. 6. Plato --v. 7. Aristotle, I --v. 8. Aristotle, II --v. 9. Hippocrates; Galen --v. 10. Euclid; Archimedes; Nicomachus --v. 11. Lucretius; Epictetus; Marcus Aurelius; Plotinus --v. 12. Virgil --v. 13. Plutarch --v. 14. Tacitus --v. 15. Ptolemy; Copernicus; Kepler --v. 16. Augustine --v. 17. Aquinas, I --v. 18. Aquinas, II --v. 19. Dante; Chaucer --v. 20. Calvin --v. 21. Machiavelli; Hobbes --v. 22. Rabelais --v. 23. Erasmus; Montaigne --v. 24. Shakespeare, I --v. 25. Shakespeare, II --v. 26. Gilbert; Galileo; Harvey --v. 27. Cervantes --v. 28. Bacon; Descartes; Spinoza --v. 29. Milton --v. 30. Pascal --v. 31. Moliere; Racine --v. 32. Newton; Huygens --v. 33. Locke; Berkeley; Hume --v. 34. Swift; Voltaire; Diderot --v. 35. Montesquieu; Rousseau --v. 36. Adam Smith --v. 37. Gibbon, I --v. 38. Gibbon, II --v. 39. Kant --v. 40. American state papers; The Federalist; J.S. Mill --v. 41. Boswell --v. 42. Lavoisier; Faraday --v. 43. Hegel; Kierkegaard; Nietzsche --v. 44. Tocqueville --v. 45. Goethe; Balzac --v. 46. Jane Austen; George Eliot --v. 47. Dickens --v. 48. Melville; Twain --v. 49. Darwin --v. 50. Marx --v. 51. Tolstoy --v. 52. Dostoevsky; Ibsen --v. 53. William James --v. 54. Freud.

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Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins & Mortimer J. Adler
Binding: Hardback
Published: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1986

Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings

Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. It presents the great books in 54 volumes, selected based on their relevance to contemporary matters and significance in the context of Western Civilization. v. 1. The syntopicon, I --v. 2. The syntopicon, II --v. 3. Homer ; The Iliad ; The Odyssey --v. 4. Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; Aristophanes --v. 5. Herodotus; Thucydides --v. 6. Plato --v. 7. Aristotle, I --v. 8. Aristotle, II --v. 9. Hippocrates; Galen --v. 10. Euclid; Archimedes; Nicomachus --v. 11. Lucretius; Epictetus; Marcus Aurelius; Plotinus --v. 12. Virgil --v. 13. Plutarch --v. 14. Tacitus --v. 15. Ptolemy; Copernicus; Kepler --v. 16. Augustine --v. 17. Aquinas, I --v. 18. Aquinas, II --v. 19. Dante; Chaucer --v. 20. Calvin --v. 21. Machiavelli; Hobbes --v. 22. Rabelais --v. 23. Erasmus; Montaigne --v. 24. Shakespeare, I --v. 25. Shakespeare, II --v. 26. Gilbert; Galileo; Harvey --v. 27. Cervantes --v. 28. Bacon; Descartes; Spinoza --v. 29. Milton --v. 30. Pascal --v. 31. Moliere; Racine --v. 32. Newton; Huygens --v. 33. Locke; Berkeley; Hume --v. 34. Swift; Voltaire; Diderot --v. 35. Montesquieu; Rousseau --v. 36. Adam Smith --v. 37. Gibbon, I --v. 38. Gibbon, II --v. 39. Kant --v. 40. American state papers; The Federalist; J.S. Mill --v. 41. Boswell --v. 42. Lavoisier; Faraday --v. 43. Hegel; Kierkegaard; Nietzsche --v. 44. Tocqueville --v. 45. Goethe; Balzac --v. 46. Jane Austen; George Eliot --v. 47. Dickens --v. 48. Melville; Twain --v. 49. Darwin --v. 50. Marx --v. 51. Tolstoy --v. 52. Dostoevsky; Ibsen --v. 53. William James --v. 54. Freud.