Britannica Great Books Series: Great Books Of The Western World. Including: 1.The Great Conversation
Britannica Great Books Series: Great Books Of The Western World. Including: 1.The Great Conversation
2.The Great Ideas: I
3.The Great Ideas: II
4.The Iliad of Homer and the Odyssey
5.Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
6.Herodotus, Thucydides
7.Plato
8. (Aristotle): The Works Of Aristotle (Vol. I)
9. (Aristotle): The Works Of Aristotle (Vol. II)
10.Hippocrates, Galen
11. (Euclid): The Thirteen Books Of Euclid’s Elements; [with] (Archimedes): The Works Of Archimedes Including The Method; [with] (Apollonius Of Perga): On Conic Sections; [with] (Nichomachus Of Gerasa): Introduction To Arithmetic
12.Lucreatius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
13.Virgil
14.Plutarch
15.Tacitus
16.Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
17.Plotinus
18.Augustine
19.Thomas Aquinas: I
20.Thomas Aquinas: II
21.Dante
22.Chaucer
23.Machiavelli Hobbs
24.Rabelais
25.Montaigne
26. (William Shakespeare): The Plays And Sonnets Of William Shakespeare (Vol. I)
27. (William
by Robert Maynard Hutchins [editor]
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Chicago: William Benton. , 1952.. Very good examples. Some copies with minor damp stains to page edges. Interior otherwise clean and crisp.. Binding: Full tan leatherette boards. Spine with rules, motifs, and lettering in gilt; title and vol. numbers in gilt in coloured labels. Printed paste-in and free endpapers.
, Notes: Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in a 54-volume set.
The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must have been relevant to contemporary matters, and not only important in its historical context; it must be rewarding to re-read repeatedly with respect to liberal education; and it must be a part of "the great conversation about the great ideas", relevant to at least 25 of the 102 "Great Ideas" as identified by the editor of the series' comprehensive index, what they dubbed the “Syntopicon,” to which they belonged.
, Size: Quarto. , Volume: Set of 52 volumes. , Category: Book Literature;
, Notes: Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in a 54-volume set.
The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must have been relevant to contemporary matters, and not only important in its historical context; it must be rewarding to re-read repeatedly with respect to liberal education; and it must be a part of "the great conversation about the great ideas", relevant to at least 25 of the 102 "Great Ideas" as identified by the editor of the series' comprehensive index, what they dubbed the “Syntopicon,” to which they belonged.
, Size: Quarto. , Volume: Set of 52 volumes. , Category: Book Literature;
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- Britannica Great Books Series: Great Books Of The Western World. Including: 1.The Great Conversation2.The Great Ideas: I3.The Great Ideas: II4.The Iliad of Homer and the Odyssey5.Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes6.Herodotus, Thucydides7.Plato8. (Aristotle): The Works Of Aristotle (Vol. I)9. (Aristotle): The Works Of Aristotle (Vol. II)10.Hippocrates, Galen11. (Euclid): The Thirteen Books Of Euclid’s Elements; [with] (Archimedes): The Works Of Archimedes Including The Method; [with] (Apollonius Of Perga): On Conic Sections; [with] (Nichomachus Of Gerasa): Introduction To Arithmetic 12.Lucreatius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius13.Virgil14.Plutarch15.Tacitus16.Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler17.Plotinus18.Augustine19.Thomas Aquinas: I20.Thomas Aquinas: II21.Dante22.Chaucer23.Machiavelli Hobbs24.Rabelais25.Montaigne26. (William Shakespeare): The Plays And Sonnets Of William Shakespeare (Vol. I)27. (William
- Author
- Robert Maynard Hutchins [editor]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good examples. Some copies with minor damp stains to page edges. Interior otherwise clean and crisp.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Benton.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1952.
- Keywords
- Book Literature;
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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