Great Books of the Western World
60 Volumes
Encyclopedia Britannica
ISBN: 0-85229-531-6
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517 of the most significant literary achievements.
Explore the fundamental questions of humanity
Own the classics that helped shape modern civilization
Compare the perspectives of history's supreme thinkers
There is no better way to own and appreciate the world's greatest written works. Great Books of the Western World is one of the most acclaimed publishing feats of our time. Authoritative, accurate, and complete, this collection represents the essential core of the Western literary canon, compiling 517 of the most significant achievements in literature, history, philosophy, and science into a color-coded set as handsome as it is affordable. From the ancient classics to the newest masterpieces of the 20th century, Great Books traces the ideas, stories, and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization.
The Great Conversation: A compilation featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors.
Syntopicon: Volumes 1 and 2 comprise this unique guide that enables you to investigate a particular idea, such as courage or democracy, and compare the perspectives of different authors.
Color-coded Volumes: Four colors identify each volume by subject area -- Imaginative Literature, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, History and Social Science, and Philosophy and Theology.
Reading Guidance: A special section offers advice on how to get the most out of the Great Books collection, including a 10-year reading plan.
Contents:
An amazing collection of works by the word's greatest authors, including:
Aristotle
Austen
Calvin
Chaucer
Copernicus
Dante
Darwin
Dickens
Freud
Hippocrates
Homer
Marx
Plato
Shakespeare
Tolstoy
Tocqueville
Twain
Virgil
- and dozens more!
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.
Individual Volume Size: 9 1/2" H x 1"-2" W (Across Spine) x 6 1/2" D
Overall Width of Set: 65"(5'5")
Special colors on the Great Books' spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas -
GREEN
: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, and Poetry
RED
: Philosophy and Religion
BLUE
: History, Politics, Economics, and Ethics
GREY: Mathematics and Natural Sciences
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, Keynes
Volume 58 Frazer, Weber, Huizinga, Levi-Strauss
GREY: Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Volume 9 Hippocrates, Galen
Volume 10 Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus
Volume 15 Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
Volume 26 Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey
Volume 32 Newton, Huygens
Volume 42 Lavoisier, Faraday
Volume 49 Darwin
Volume 53 William James
Volume 54 Freud
Volume 56 Poincare, Planck, Whitehead, Einstein, Eddington, Bohr, Hardy, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Dobzhansky, Waddington
The following are samples of great thoughts through the ages:
5th Century B.C. - Euripides
"--our ancestors handled these matters well by banning their murderers from public sight, forbidding them to meet or speak to anyone. But the point is this: they purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge."
17th Century -- Locke
"Every man in the state of Nature has the power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury -- and also to secure men from the attempts of a criminal who -- hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind."
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