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I am selling this excellent classic set of Encyclopedia Britannica "Great Books of the Western World." 54 volume set, cloth bound, printed in 1952. Each book measures approximately 9 1/2" x 6 1/2". This offer includes:
● 54 volumes of the "Great Books of the Western World"
● 10 volumes of the "Gateway to the Great Books"
● 10 volumes of "The Great Ideas Program"
● 23 leather bound volumes of "Great Ideas Today" cloth bound updates to the Great Books.
This is 97 volumes for one price.
Great Books Include:
1. The Great Conversation
2. The Great Ideas I
3. The Great Ideas II
4. The Iliad of Homer
5. Aeschylus ~ Sophocles ~ Euripides ~ Aristophanes
6. Herodotus ~ Thucydides
7. Plato
8. Aristotle
9. Aristotle II
10. Hippocrates ~ Galen
11. Euclid ~ Archimedes ~ Apollonius of Perga ~ Nicomachus
12. Lucretius ~ Epictetus ~ M. Aurelius
13. Virgil
14. Plutarch
15. Tacitus
16. Ptolemy ~ Copernicus ~ Kepler
17. Plotinus
18. Augustine
19. Thomas Aquinas I
20. Thomas Aquinas II
21. Dante
22. Chaucer
23. Machiavelli ~ Hobbes
24. Rabelais
25. Montaigne
26. Shakespeare I
27. Shakespeare II
28. Gilbert ~ Galileo ~ Harvey
29. Cervantes
30. Francis Bacon
31. Descartes ~ Spinoza
32. Milton
33. Pascal
34. Newton ~ Huygens
35. Locke ~ Berkeley ~ Hume
36. Swift ~ Sterne
37. Fielding
38. Montesquieu ~ Rousseau
39. Adam Smith
40. Gibbon I
41. Gibbon II
42. Kant
43. American State Papers ~ Federalist ~ J.S. Mill
44. Boswell
45. Lavoisier ~ Fourier ~ Faraday
46. Hegel
47. Goethe
48. Melville
49. Darwin
50. Marx
51. Tolstoy
52. Dostoevsky
53. William James
54. Freud
The Great Ideas Program Books Include:
1. An Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education
2. The Development of Political Theory and Government
3. Foundations of Science and Mathematics
4. Religion and Theology
5. Philosophy of Law and Jurisprudence
6. Imaginative Literature I
7. Imaginative Literature II
8. Ethics: The Study of Moral Values
9. Biology, Psychology, and Medicine
10. Philosophy
The spines of the Great Books' guide you quickly to the four different subject areas. They are as follows:
Green: NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, PLAYS, and POETRY
Red: PHILOSOPHY and RELIGION
Blue: HISTORY, POLITICS, ECONOMICS, and ETHICS
Grey: MATHEMATICS and NATURAL SCIENCES
