Title: Great books of the Western World /
Authors: Hutchins, Robert Maynard,; Hutchins, Robert Maynard,; Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.; University of Chicago.
Date: 1952
Publisher: W. Benton,
Physical description: 54 v. : illus., maps ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: A
Abstract: A massive set of classic books includes the most influential works of literature, philosophy, and science, in the history of the West.
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.
Notes: General t.p. in vol. 1 only: each vol. has special t.p. "Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the editor." Princeton's copy is number 447 of 500. Princeton's copy donated by Alfred T. Carton, Class of 1905. Princeton's copy of vol. 53 is the 19th printing, 1971. Contains a list of the subscribers, donors and recipients of the first edition.
Subject headings (LCSH): Indexes.; Literature--Collections.; Literature--Indexes.