The Great Books of the Western World is a series of books published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The first edition of 54 volumes was published in 1952. A second edition was published in 1990 which contained 60 volumes.
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- Robert Maynard Hutchins
- The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education
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- Mortimer J. Adler, Editor in Chief and William Gorman, General Editor
- The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon Vol I: Angel to Love
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- Mortimer J. Adler, Editor in Chief and William Gorman, General Editor
- The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon Vol II: Man to World
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- Homer
- The Iliad • The Odyssey
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- Aeschylus
- The Suppliant Maidens • The Persians • Seven Against Thebes • Prometheus Bound • Agamemnon • Choephoroe • The Eumenides
- Sophocles
- Oedipus the King • Oedipus at Colonus • Antigone • Ajax • Electra • The Trachiniae • Philoctetes
- Euripides
- Rhesus • Medea • Hippolytus • Alcestis • Heracleidae • The Suppliants • Trojan Women • Ion • Helen • Andromache • Electra • Bacchantes • • Hecuba • Heracles Mad • Phoenician Women • Orestes • Iphigeneia in Tauris • Iphigeneia at Aulis • Cyclops
- Aristophanes
- The Acharnians • The Knights • The Clouds • The Wasps • Peace • The Birds • The Frogs • Lysistrata • Thesmophoriazusae • Ecclesiazousae • Plutus
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- Herodotus
- The History
- Thucydides
- History of the Peloponnesian War
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- Plato
- Charmides • Lysis • Laches • Protagoras • Euthydemus • Cratylus • Phaedrus • Ion • Symposium • Meno • Euthyphro • Apology • Crito • Phaedo • Gorgias • The Republic • Timaeus • Critias • Parmenides • Theaetetus • Sophist • Statesman • Philebus • Laws • The Seventh Letter
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- Aristotle
- Categories • On Interpretation • Prior Analytics • Posterior Analytics • Topics • Sophistical Refutations • Physics • On the Heavens • On Generation and Corruption • Meteorology • Metaphysics • On the Soul
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- Aristotle
- History of Animals • Parts of Animals • On the Motion of Animals • On the Gait of Animals • On the Generation of Animals • Nicomachean Ethics • Politics • The Athenian Constitution • Rhetoric • Poetics
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- Hippocrates
- The Oath • On Ancient Medicine • On Airs, Waters, and Places • The Book of Prognostices • On Regimen in Acute Diseases • Of the Epidemics • On Injuries of the Head • On the Surgery • On Fractures • On the Articulations • Instruments of Reduction • Aphorisms • The Law • On Ulcers •
On Fistula • On Hemerrhoids • On the Sacred Disease- Galen
- On the Natural Faculties
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- Euclid
- The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements
- Archimedes
- On the Sphere and Cylinder • Measurement of a Circle • On Conoids and Spheroids • On Spirals • On the Equilibrium of Planes • The Sand Reckoner • The Quadrature of the Parabola • On Floating Bodies • Book of Lemmas • The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
- Apollonius of Perga
- On Conic Sections
- Nicomachus of Gerasa
- Introduction to Arithmetic
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- Lucretius
- On the Nature of Things
- Epictetus
- The Discourses
- Marcus Aurelius
- The Meditations
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- Virgil
- The Eclogues • The Georgics • The Aeneid
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- Plutarch
- The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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- P. Cornelius Tacitus
- The Annals • The Histories
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- Ptolemy
- The Almagest
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
- Johannes Kepler
- Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV–V) • The Harmonies of the World (Book V)
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- Plotinus
- The Six Enneads
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- Saint Augustine
- The Confessions • The City of God • On Christian Doctrine
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- Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Summa Theologica, Part I and Part II (partial)
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- Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Summa Theologica, Part II (partial), Part III (partial) and Part III Supplement (partial)
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- Dante Alighieri
- The Divine Comedy
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- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Troilus and Cressida • The Canterbury Tales
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- Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Prince
- Thomas Hobbes
- Leviathan, or, Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil
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- François Rabelais
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
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- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Essays
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- William Shakespeare
- The First Part of King Henry the Sixth • The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth • The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth • The Tragedy of Richard the Third • The Comedy of Errors • Titus Andronicus • The Taming of the Shrew • The Two Gentlemen of Verona • Love’s Labour’s Lost • Romeo and Juliet • The Tragedy of King Richard the Second • A Midsummer Night’s Dream • The Life and Death of King John • The Merchant of Venice • The First Part of King Henry the Fourth • The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth • Much Ado About Nothing • The Life of King Henry the Fifth • Julius Caesar • As You Like It
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- William Shakespeare
- Twelfth Night; or, What You Will • The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark • The Merry Wives of Windsor • Troilus and Cressida • All’s Well That Ends Well • Measure for Measure • Othello, the Moor of Venice • King Lear • Macbeth • Antony and Cleopatra • Coriolanus • Timon of Athens • Pericles, Prince of Tyre • Cymbeline • The Winter’s Tale • The Tempest • The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth • Sonnets
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- William Gilbert
- On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
- Galileo Galilei
- Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
- William Harvey
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals • On the Circulation of Blood • On the Generation of Animals
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- Miguel de Cervantes
- The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
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- Sir Francis Bacon
- The Advancement of Learning • Novum Organum • New Atlantis
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- René Descartes
- Rules for the Direction of the Mind • Discourse on the Method • Meditations on First Philosophy • Objections Against the Meditations and Replies • The Geometry
- Benedict de Spinoza
- Ethics
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- John Milton
- English Minor Poems • Paradise Lost • Samson Agonistes • Areopagitica
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- Blaise Pascal
- The Provincial Letters • Pensées • Preface to the Treatise on the Vavuum • New Experiments Concerning the Vacuum • Account of the Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids • Treatises on the Equilibrium of Liquids and on the Weight of the Mass of the Air • On Geometrical Demonstration • Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle • Correspondence with Fermat on the Theory of Probabilities
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- Sir Isaac Newton
- Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy • Optics
- Christian Huygens
- Treatise on Light
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- John Locke
- A Letter Concerning Toleration • Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- George Berkeley
- The Principles of Human Knowledge
- David Hume
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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- Jonathan Swift
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Laurence Sterne
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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- Henry Fielding
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
- The Spirit of the Laws
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality • A Discourse on Political Economy • The Social Contract
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- Adam Smith
- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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- Edward Gibbon
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Chapters 1-40)
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- Edward Gibbon
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Chapters 41-71)
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- Immanuel Kant
- Critique of Pure Reason • Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals • Critique of Practical Reason • Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics with a note on Conscience • General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals • The Science of Right • The Critique of Judgement
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- American State Papers
- Declaration of Independence • Articles of Confederation • The Constitution of the United States of America
- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
- The Federalist
- John Stuart Mill
- On Liberty • Considerations on Representative Government • Utilitarianism
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- James Boswell
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
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- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
- Elements of Chemistry
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
- Analytical Theory of Heat
- Michael Faraday
- Experimental Researches in Electricity
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- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- The Philosophy of Right • The Philosophy of History
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faust
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- Herman Melville
- Moby Dick; or, The Whale
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- Charles Darwin
- The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
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- Karl Marx
- Capital
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Manifesto of the Communist Party
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- Count Leo Tolstoy
- War and Peace
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- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov
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- William James
- The Principles of Psychology
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- Sigmund Freud
- The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis • Selected Papers on Hysteria • The Sexual Enlightenment of Children • The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy • Observations on “Wild” Psycho-Analysis • The Interpretation of Dreams • On Narcissism • Instincts and Their Vicissitudes • Repression • The Unconscious • A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis • Beyond the Pleasure Principle • Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego • The Ego and the Id • Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety • Thoughts for the Times on War and Death • Civilization and Its Discontents • New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
Differences in 1990 second edition:
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- John Calvin
- Institutes of the Christian Religion
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- Erasmus
- The Praise of Folly
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- Molière
- The School for Wives • The Critique of the School for Wives • Tartuffe • Don Juan • The Miser • The Would-Be Gentleman • The Imaginary Invalid
- Jean Racine
- Bérénice • Phèdre
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- Voltaire
- Candide
- Denis Diderot
- Rameau’s Nephew
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- Søren Kierkegaard
- Fear and Trembling
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Beyond Good and Evil
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- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Democracy in America
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- Honoré de Balzac
- Cousin Bette
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- Jane Austen
- Emma
- George Eliot
- Middlemarch
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- Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit
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- Mark Twain
- Huckleberry Finn
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- Henrik Ibsen
- A Doll’s House • The Wild Duck • Hedda Gabler • The Master Builder
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- William James
- Pragmatism
- Henri Bergson
- An Introduction to Metaphysics
- John Dewey
- Experience and Education
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Science and the Modern World
- Bertrand Russell
- The Problems of Philosophy
- Martin Heidegger
- What Is Metaphysics?
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Philosophical Investigations
- Karl Barth
- The Word of God and the Word of Man
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- Henri Poincaré
- Science and Hypothesis
- Max Planck
- Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
- Alfred North Whitehead
- An Introduction to Mathematics
- Albert Einstein
- Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
- Arthur Eddington
- The Expanding Universe
- Niels Bohr
- Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature • Discussion with Einstein on Epistemology
- G. H. Hardy
- A Mathematician’s Apology
- Werner Heisenberg
- Physics and Philosophy
- Erwin Schrödinger
- What Is Life?
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Genetics and the Origin of Species
- C. H. Waddington
- The Nature of Life
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- Thorstein Veblen
- The Theory of the Leisure Class
- R. H. Tawney
- The Acquisitive Society
- John Maynard Keynes
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
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- Sir James George Frazer
- The Golden Bough
- Max Weber
- Essays in Sociology
- Johan Huizinga
- The Autumn of the Middle Ages
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Structural Anthropology
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- Henry James
- The Beast in the Jungle
- George Bernard Shaw
- Saint Joan
- Joseph Conrad
- Heart of Darkness
- Anton Chekhov
- Uncle Vanya
- Luigi Pirandello
- Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Marcel Proust
- Remembrance of Things Past: “Swann in Love”
- Willa Cather
- A Lost Lady
- Thomas Mann
- Death in Venice
- James Joyce
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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- Virginia Woolf
- To the Lighthouse
- Franz Kafka
- The Metamorphosis
- D. H. Lawrence
- The Prussian Officer
- T. S. Eliot
- The Waste Land
- Eugene O’Neill
- Mourning Becomes Electra
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great Gatsby
- William Faulkner
- A Rose for Emily
- Bertolt Brecht
- Mother Courage and Her Children
- Ernest Hemingway
- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
- George Orwell
- Animal Farm
- Samuel Beckett
- Waiting for Godot (Act I – Act II)
