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Great Books of the Western World - Great books of the Western world

Information... Knowledge... Understanding... Wisdom... From the ancient classics to the masterpieces of the 20th century, the Great Books are all the introduction you`ll ever need to the ideas, stories and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. This collection of 517 classics in 60 beautifully bound volumes is color-coded into four ... more »subject categories: literature, history, philosophy, and science. And since this edition includes works from 20th century authors, it`s the most up-to-date collection of the Great Books ever. Product Details Reading and understanding great works by history`s outstanding minds has always been considered the substance of a liberal education. The Great Books of the Western World has been acclaimed as the greatest publishing venture of the 20th Century. The set now consists of 60 volumes, with 517 works by 130 authors spanning 30 centuries, on a total of 37,000 pages containing 29 million words. Among the Great Books` 130 authors, 47 are writers of imaginative literature; 29 are masters of mathematics and/or the natural sciences; 28 are historians or social scientists, and 28 or more are philosophers and/or theologians. (This totals 132 because William James and Alfred North Whitehead have made contributions in both of the latter two subject categories). Volume Details Volumes 1 and 2 of this collection is the Syntopicon, a unique two-volume guide (not sold separately) that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it. The Syntopicon comprises a new kind of reference work -- accomplishing for ideas what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopaedia accomplishes for facts. Also included is the Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors. Special colors on the Great Books` spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas - GREEN: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, and Poetry Volume 3 Homer Volume 4 Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Aristophanes Volume 12 Virgil Volume 19 Dante, Chaucer Volume 22 Rabelais Volume 24 Shakespeare l Volume 25 Shakespeare ll Volume 27 Cervantes Volume 29 Milton Volume 31 Molière, Racine Volume 34 Swift, Voltaire, Diderot Volume 45 Goethe, Balzac Volume 46 Austen, George Eliot Volume 47 Dickens Volume 48 Melville, Twain Volume 51 Tolstoy Volume 52 Dostoevsky, Ibsen Volume 59 Henry James, Shaw, Conrad, Chekhov, Pirandello, Proust, Cather, Mann, Joyce Volume 60 Woolf, Kafka, Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, O`Neill, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Brecht, Hemingway, Orwell, Beckett RED: Philosophy and Religion Volume 6 Plato Volume 7 Aristotle l Volume 8 Aristotle ll Volume 11 Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus Volume 16 Augustine Volume 17 Aquinas l Volume 18 Aquinas ll Volume 20 Calvin Volume 28 Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza Volume 30 Pascal Volume 33 Locke, Berkeley, Hume Volume 39 Kant Volume 43 Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche Volume 55 William James, Bergson, Dewey, Whitehead, Russell, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Barth BLUE: History, Politics, Economics, and Ethics Volume 5 Herodotus, Thucydides Volume 13 Plutarch Volume 14 Tacitus Volume 21 Machiavelli, Hobbes Volume 23 Erasmus, Montaigne Volume 35 Montesquieu, Rousseau Volume 36 Adam Smith Volume 37 Gibbon l Volume 38 Gibbon ll Volume 40 J. S. Mill Volume 41 Boswell Volume 44 Tocqueville Volume 50 Marx, Engels Volume 57 Veblen, Tawney, Keyne

ISBN-13: 9780852295311
ISBN-10: 0852295316
Publication Date: 3/1994
Pages: 37,000
Edition: [2nd ed.]
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Publisher: Encyclopedia Britannica Corporation
Book Type: Hardcover
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