An edition of Great books of the Western World.: Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago.

Great books of the Western World.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago.

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W. Benton
Language
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Pages
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1952, W. Benton
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Table of Contents

1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.
2-3. The great ideas.
4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.
5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes.
6. Herodotus. Thucydides.
7. Plato.
8-9. Aristotle.
10. Hippocrates. Galen.
11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus.
12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius.
13. Virgil.
14. Plutarch.
15. Tacitus.
16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler.
17. Plotinus.
18. Augustine.
19.-20. Thomas Aquinas.
21. Dante.
22. Chaucer.
23. Machiavelli. Hobbes.
24. Rabelais.
25. Montaigne.
26-27. Shakespeare.
28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey.
29. Cervantes.
30. Francis Bacon.
31. Descartes. Spinoza.
32. John Milton.
33. Pascal.
34. Newton. Huygens.
35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume.
36. Swift. Sterne.
37. Henry Fielding.
38. Montesquieu. Rousseau.
39. Adam Smith.
40-41. Gibbon.
42. Kant.
43. American state papers. The 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies.
General t.p. in vol. 1 only: each vol. has special t.p.
"Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the editor." L.C. copy neither numbered nor signed.

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Dewey Decimal Class
082
Library of Congress
AC1 .G7

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Pagination
54 v.
Number of pages
54

ID Numbers

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OL6107469M
Internet Archive
greatbooksofwest22hutc
LCCN
52002133
Library Thing
3331776

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