An edition of Great books of the Western World.

Great books of the Western World.

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

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W. Benton
Language
English
Pages
54

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Previews available in: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Subjects
Literature -- Collections., Literature -- Indexes.

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Cover of: Great books of the Western World Volume 22
Great books of the Western World Volume 22: Canterbury Tales & Troilus and Cressida
1952, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.
Hardcover in English, Middle (1100-1500)

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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

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OL6107469M
LCCN
52002133

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