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Great books of the Western World : Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago
Title:
Great books of the Western World : Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago
JLCTITLE245:
[Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief]
Edition:
Founders' edition.
Publication Information:
Chicago, Illinois : William Benton, [1952]
Physical Description:
54 volumes illustrations, maps 25 cm
General Note:
General title page in volume 1 only: each volume has special title page.
Abstract:
A massive set of classic books includes the most influential works of literature, philosophy, and science, in the history of the West.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Corporate Author:
Additional Physical Form Available:
Also issued online.
Contents:
1. The great conversation / R.M. Hutchins -- 2-3. The great ideas -- 4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey / Homer ; rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler -- 5. The suppliant maidens. The Persians. Seven against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The Oresteia / Aeschylus ; translated into English verse by G. M. Cookson. Oedipus the king. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone. Ajax. Electra. The Trachiniae. Philoctetes / Sophocles ; translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb. Rhesus. Medea. Hippolytus. Alcestis. Heracleidae. The suppliants. Trojan women. Ion. Helen. Andromache. Electra. Bacchantes. Hecuba. Heracles mad. Pheonician women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Tauris. Iphigenia in Aulis Cyclops / Euripides ; translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge. The Acharnians. The knights. The clouds. The wasps. Peace. The birds. The frogs. Lysistrata. Thesmophoriazusae. Ecclesiazousae. Plutus / Aristophanes ; translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers -- 6. The history / Herodotus ; translated by George Rawlinson. History of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides ; translated by Richard Crawley and revised by R. Feetham -- 7. Charmides. Lysis. Laches. Protagoras. Euthydemus. Cratylus. Phaedrus. Ion. Symposium. Meno. Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Gorgias. The Republic. Timaeus. Critias. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesmen. Philebus. Laws / Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett. The seventh letter / Plato ; translated by J. Harward -- 8. Categories. On interpretation. Prior analytics. Posterior analytics. Topics. Sophistical refutations. Physics. On the heavens. On generation and corruption. Meteorology. Metaphysics. On the soul / Aristotle -- 9. History of animals. Parts of animals. On the motion of animals. On the gait of animals. On the generation of animals. Nicomachean ethics. Politics. The Athenian constitution. Rhetoric. Poetics / Aristotle -- 10. Works / Hippocrates. On the natural faculties / Galen -- 11. The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements / Euclid. On the sphere and cylinder. Measurement of a circle. On conoids and spheroids. On spirals. On the equilibrium of planes. The sand reckoner. The quadrature of the parabola. On floating bodies. Book of lemmas. The method treating of mechanical problems / Archimedes. On conic sections / Appollonius of Perga. Introduction to arithmetic / Nicomachus -- 12. On the nature of things / Lucretius ; translated by H. A. J. Munro. The discourses / Epictetus ; translated by George Long. The meditations / Marcus Aurelius ; translated by George Long -- 13. Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid / Virgil ; translated into English verse by James Rhoades -- 14. The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans / Plutarch ; translated by John Dryden -- 15. The annals. The histories / P. Cornelius Tacitus ; translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb -- 16. Almagest / Ptolemy ; translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro. On the revolutions of heavenly spheres / Nicolaus Copernicus ; translated by Charles Glenn Wallis. Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV-V). The harmonies of the world (Book V) / Johannes Kepler ; translated by Charles Glenn Wallis -- 17. The six Enneads / Plotinus ; translated by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page -- 18. The confessions. The city of God. On Christian doctrine / Augustine -- 19-20. Summa theologica / Thomas Aquinas ; translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan -- 21. The divine comedy / Dante ; translated by Charles Eliot Norton -- 22. Troilus and Criseyde. The Cantebury tales / Chaucer -- 23. The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli. Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- 24. Gargantua and Pantagruel / Rabelais -- 25. Essays / Michel de Montaigne -- 26. The first part of King Henry the Sixth. The second part of King Henry the Sixth. The third part of King Henry the Sixth. The tragedy of Richard the Third. The comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. The taming of the shrew. The two gentlemen of Verona. Love's labour's lost. Romeo and Juliet. The tragedy of King Richard the Second. A midsummer night's dream. The life and death of King John. The merchant of Venice. The first part of King Henry the Fourth. The second part of King Henry the Fourth. Much ado about nothing. The life of King Henry the Fifth. Julius Caesar. As you like it / William Shakespeare -- . 27. Twelfth night; or, What you will. The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The merry wives of Windsor. Troilus and Cressida. All's well the ends well. Measure for measure. Othello, the Moor of Venice. King Lear. Macbeth. Antony and Cleopatra. Coriolanus. Timon of Athens. Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Cymbeline. The winter's tale. The tempest. The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eighth. Sonnets / William Shakespeare -- 28. On the loadstone and magnetic bodies / William Gilbert. Dialogues concerning the two new sciences / Galileo Galilei. On the motion of the heart and blood in animals. On the circulation of blood. On the generation of animals / William Harvey -- 29. The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes -- 30. The adventure of learning. Novum organum. New Atlantis / Francis Bacon -- 31. Rules for the direction of the mind. Discourse on the method. Meditations on first philosophy. Objections against the meditations and replies. The geometry / René Descartes. Ethics / Benedict de Spinoza -- 32. English minor poems. Paradise lost. Samson agonistes. Areopagitica / John Milton -- 33. The provincial letters. Pensées. Scientific and mathematical essays / Blaise Pascal -- 34. Mathematical principles of natural philosophy. Optics / Sir Isaac Newton. Treatise on light / Christian Huygens -- 35. A letter concerning toleration. Concerning civil government, second essay. An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke. The principles of human knowledge / George Berkeley. An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume -- 36. Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / Laurence Sterne -- 37. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling / Henry Fielding -- 38. The spirit of the laws / Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. A disourse on the origin of inequality. A disourse on political economy. The social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- 39. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- 40-41. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Gibbon -- 42. Critique of pure reason. Fundamental principles of the metaphysic of morals. Critique of practical reason. Excerpts from The metaphysics of morals / Kant -- 43. American state papers. The Federalist / Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay. On liberty. Considerations on representive government. Utilitarianism / J.S. Mill -- 44. The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. / Boswell -- 45. Elements of chemistry / Anthoine Laurent Lavoisier. Analytical theory of heat / Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier. Experiment researches in electricity / Michael Faraday -- 46. The philosophy of right. The philosophy of history / Georg Wilelm Friedrich Hegel -- 47. Faust / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- 48. Moby Dick; or, The whale / Herman Melville -- 49. The origin of species by means of natural selection. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex / Charles Darwin -- 50. Capital / Karl Marx. Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- 51. War and peace / Count Leo Tolstoy -- 52. The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky -- 53. The principles of psychology / William James -- 54. The origin and development of psycho-analysis. Selected papers on hysteria. The sexual enlightenment of children. The future prospects of psycho-analytic therapy. Observations on "wild" psycho-analysis. The interpretation of dreams. On narcissism. Instincts and their vicissitudes. Repression. The unconscious. A general introduction to psycho-analysis. Beyond the pleasure principle. Group psychology and the analysis of the ego. The Ego and the Id. Inhibitions, symptoms, and anxiety. Thoughts for the times on war and death. Civilization and its discontents. New introductory lectures on pscyho-analysis / Sigmund Freud.
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