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Loading... Great Books of the Western World (54 Volume Set) (edition 1952)by Robert Maynard (editor) Hutchins (Author)12/22/20 I own the complete set (vol 1-54) and keep them at home on the top west shelf of my office; this includes The Great Conversation (which is volume 1) and The Great Ideas (volumes 2-3, the Synopticon); I also have at home Gateway to the Great Books volumes 2-5 (missing 1 and 6-10, see following paragraph). I have only the years 1979, 1981, and 1982 of The Great Ideas Today published each year 1961-1998. [I also have volumes 1-3 of Great Books of the Western World in the BCSA office, although I have them at home at the moment to read on my next sabbatical (Lord willing) as they seem a little nicer set (for reading).] (Wikipedia) Gateway to the Great Books is a 10-volume series of books originally published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. in 1963 and edited by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins. The set was designed as an introduction to the Great Books of the Western World, published by the same organization and editors in 1952. The set included selections – short stories, plays, essays, letters, and extracts from longer works – by more than one hundred authors. The selections were generally shorter and in some ways simpler than the full-length books included in the Great Books. Good collection, but some of the translation are dated or not up to the latest scholarly standards. Here are the titles of my set: 54 Volumes: Volume 1: The Great Conversation Volume 2: The Great Ideas I Volume 3: The Great Ideas II Volume 4: Homer Volume 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes Volume 6: Herodotus, Thucydides Volume 7: Plato Volume 8: Aristotle I Volume 9: Aristotle II Volume 10: Hippocrates, Galen Volume 11: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus Volume 12: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius Volume 13: Virgil Volume 14: Plutarch Volume 15: Tacitus Volume 16: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler Volume 17: Plotinus Volume 18: Augustine Volume 19: Thomas Aquinas I Volume 20: Thomas Aquinas II Volume 21: Dante Volume 22: Chaucer Volume 23: Machiavelli, Hobbes Volume 24: Rabelais Volume 25: Montaigne Volume 26: Shakespeare I Volume 27: Shakespeare II Volume 28: Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey Volume 29: Cervantes Volume 30: Francis Bacon Volume 31: Descartes, Spinoza Volume 32: Milton Volume 33: Pascal Volume 34: Newton, Huygens Volume 35: Locke, Berkeley, Hume Volume 36: Swift, Sterne Volume 37: Fielding Volume 38: Montesquieu, Rousseau Volume 39: Adam Smith Volume 40: Gibbon I Volume 41: Gibbon II Volume 42: Kant Volume 43: American State Papers, The Federalist, J. S. Mill Volume 44: Boswell Volume 45: Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday Volume 46: Hegel Volume 47: Goethe Volume 48: Melville Volume 49: Darwin Volume 50: Marx Volume 51: Tolstoy Volume 52: Dostoevsky Volume 53: William James Volume 54: Freud |
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(Wikipedia) Gateway to the Great Books is a 10-volume series of books originally published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. in 1963 and edited by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins. The set was designed as an introduction to the Great Books of the Western World, published by the same organization and editors in 1952. The set included selections – short stories, plays, essays, letters, and extracts from longer works – by more than one hundred authors. The selections were generally shorter and in some ways simpler than the full-length books included in the Great Books.