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Great Books of the Western World
60 volume set

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In the world of books, there are hundreds of timeless classics. But only one collection of great works is a classic in itself Britannica's Great Books.

This 60-volume set brings you centuries of celebrated writings from the greatest minds of all time, including Plato, Shakespeare, Swift, Freud, Hemingway and Twain.

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Britannica's Great Books are truly a valuable lifetime reading companion, with 517 timeless works containing the great thoughts, theories and insights that have shaped our culture today. Ideas that will continue to inspire mankind for centuries to come.

To buy such a comprehensive collection separately would be tremendously difficult and nearly impossible. The Great Books, and the priceless education they bring you, represent what is perhaps the single greatest book value on the market today.

The new Great Books provide a well-rounded, liberal arts education in many fields of study. Philosophy, religion, mathematics, psychology, astronomy, politics and anthropology are just a few of the areas you can explore from the ancient Greeks to such 20th century greats as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and T.S. Eliot.

You will find Great Books useful for practical, everyday needs, too, like speech writing and business presentations, not to mention great family conversations at the dinner table or stimulating discussions with colleagues and friends.

What you can expect to find:

Volumes 1 and 2 of this collection are the Syntopicon®, a unique two-volume guide (not sold separately) that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it. The Syntopicon® comprises a new kind of reference work - accomplishing for ideas what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopædia accomplishes for facts. Also included is Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos and quotes from the classic works and their authors.

Volume Information - books' spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas:

GREEN: Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Poetry

Vol. 3 —  Homer

Vol. 4 —  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes

Vol.12 —  Virgil

Vol.19 —  Dante, Chaucer

Vol.22 —  Rabelais

Vol.24 —  Shakespeare (part I)

Vol.25 —  Shakespeare (part II)

Vol.27 —  Cervantes

Vol.29 —  Milton

Vol.31 —  Molière, Racine

Vol.34 —  Swift, Voltaire, Diderot

Vol.45 —  Goethe, Balzac

Vol.46 —  Austen, George Eliot

Vol.47 —  Dickens

Vol.48 —  Melville, Twain

Vol.51 —  Tolstoy

Vol.52 —  Dostoevsky, Ibsen

Vol.59 —  Henry James, Shaw, Conrad, Chekhov, Pirandello,

Vol.59 —  Proust, Cather, Mann, Joyce

Vol.60 —  Woolf, Kafka, Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, O'Neill, Fitzgerald,

Vol.60 —  Faulkner, Brecht, Hemingway, Orwell, Beckett

RED: Philosophy and Religion

Vol. 8 —  Plato

Vol. 7 —  Aristotle (part I)

Vol. 8 —  Aristotle (part II)

Vol.11 —  Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus

Vol.16 —  Augustine

Vol.17 —  Aquinas (part I)

Vol.18 —  Aquinas (part II)

Vol.20 —  Calvin

Vol.28 —  Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza

Vol.30 —  Pascal

Vol.33 —  Locke, Berkeley, Hume

Vol.39 —  Kant

Vol.43 —  Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche

Vol.55 —  William James, Bergson, Dewey, Whitehead, Russell,

Vol.55 —  Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Barth

BLUE: History, Politics, Economics and Ethics

Vol. 5 —  Herodotus, Thucydides

Vol.13 —  Plutarch

Vol.14 —  Tacitus

Vol.21 —  Machiavelli, Hobbes

Vol.23 —  Erasmus, Montaigne

Vol.35 —  Montesquieu, Rousseau

Vol.36 —  Adam Smith

Vol.37 —  Gibbon (part I)

Vol.38 —  Gibbon (part II)

Vol.40 —  J.S. Mill

Vol.41 —  Boswell

Vol.44 —  Tocqueville

Vol.50 —  Marx, Engels

Vol.57 —  Veblen, Tawney, Keynes

Vol.58 —  Frazer, Weber, Huizinga, Levi-Strauss

GREY: Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Vol. 9 —  Hippocrates, Galen

Vol.10 —  Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus

Vol.15 —  Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler

Vol.26 —  Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey

Vol.32 —  Newton, Huygens

Vol.42 —  Lavoisier, Faraday

Vol.49 —  Darwin

Vol.53 —  William James

Vol.54 —  Freud

Vol.56 —  Poincare, Planck, Whitehead, Einstein, Eddington,

Vol.56 —  Bohr, Hardy, Heisenberg, Schrodinger,

Vol.56 —  Dobzhansky, Waddington

Product Information:

-	P cked in 2 boxes
-	Weight - 47 Kg
-	Shelf Length -1690 mm (5'.6.5")
-	ISBN 0 85229 531 6