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a beautiful and classy addition to any library.2nd edition, published in 1990.Detailed item infoSynopsisFrom the ancient classics to the recent masterpieces, the Great Books of the Western World is the ultimate introduction to the ideas, stories, and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. Authoritative and accurate, this collection represents the essential core of the Western literary canon, compiling 517 of the most significant achievements in literature, history, philosophy, and science.Product IdentifiersISBN-10 16ISBN-13 1Key DetailsNumber Of Pages 37 pagesFormat HardcoverPublication Date 1990-01-01Language EnglishPublisher Encyclopaedia Britannica, IncorporatedAdditional DetailsNumber of Volumes 60 vols.Volume Number SetEdition Number 2Copyright Date 1990Original Language French, German, Greek, Classical, Latin, Multiple languages, RussianIllustrated YesDimensionsWidth 6.3 In.Length 9.4 In.Target AudienceGroup TradeClassification MethodLCCN 90-080213Dewey Decimal 320.01Dewey Edition 20ContributorsEdited by Mortimer J. AdlerIncludes:1. The Great Conversation 2. The Great Ideas I 3. The Great Ideas II 4. Homer 5. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes 6. Herodotus, Thucydides 7. Plato 8. Aristotle I9. Aristotle II 10. Hippocrates, Galen 11. Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus12. Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius 13. Virgil 14. Plutarch 15. Tacitus 16. Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler17. Plotinus 18. Augustine 19. Thomas Aquinas I20. Thomas Aquinas II21. Dante 22. Chaucer 23. Machiavelli, Hobbes 24. Rabelais 25. Montaigne 26. Shakespeare I27. Shakespeare II28. Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey 29. Cervantes 30. Francis Bacon 31. Descartes, Spinoza 32. Milton 33. Pascal 34. Newton, Huygens 35. Locke, Berkeley, Hume 36. Swift, Sterne 37. Fielding 38. Montesquieu, Rousseau 39. Adam Smith 40. Gibbon I41. Gibbon II 42. Kant 43. American State Papers, The Federalist, JS Mill 44. Boswell 45. Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday 46. Hegel 47. Goethe 48. Melville 49. Darwin 50. Marx, Engels 51. Tolstoy 52. Dostoevsky 53. William James 54. Freud55. 20th Century Philosophy and Religion56. 20th Century Natural Science57. 20th Century Social Science I58. 20th Century Social Science II59. 20th Century Imaginative Literature I60. 20th Century Imaginative Literature II