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• 60 volumes
• 37,844 pages
• 24 million words
• 517 classics by 130 authors,
• Covers 30 centuries of human thought
• Subject categories: Literature, History, Philosophy, and Science
The
ideas, stories, and discoveries that shaped modern civilization …
Information... Knowledge...
Understanding... Wisdom...
From the ancient classics to the masterpieces of the 20th
century, the Great Books are all the
introduction you’ll ever need to the ideas, stories and discoveries that have
shaped modern civilization. This collection of 517 classics in 60 beautifully
bound volumes is colour-coded into four subject categories: literature, history,
philosophy, and science. And since this edition includes works from 20th century
authors, it’s the most up-to-date collection of the Great Books ever.
Volume Details
Volumes 1 and 2 of this collection is 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 encyclopaedia accomplishes
for facts. Also included is the Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information,
extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors.
Colour Coding
Special
colours on the Great Books’ spines
guide you quickly to the four subject areas
GREEN: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, and Poetry
Homer,
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Aristophanes, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Rabelais,
Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Molière, Racine, Swift, Voltaire, Diderot, Goethe,
Balzac, Austen, George Eliot, Dickens, Melville, Twain, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky,
Ibsen, Henry James, Shaw, Conrad, Chekhov, Pirandello, Proust, Cather, Mann,
Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, O’Neill, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Brecht,
Hemingway, Orwell, Beckett
RED: Philosophy and Religion
Plato,
Aristotle, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas,
Calvin, Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Pascal, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel,
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, William James, Bergson, Dewey, Whitehead, Russell, Heidegger,
Wittgenstein, Barth
BLUE: History, Politics, Economics, and Ethics
Herodotus,
Thucydides, Plutarch, Tacitus, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Erasmus, Montaigne, Montesquieu,
Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, J. S. Mill, Boswell, Tocqueville, Marx, Engels,
Veblen, Tawney, Keynes, Frazer, Weber, Huizinga, Levi-Strauss
GREY: Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Hippocrates,
Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Gilbert,
Galileo, Harvey, Newton, Huygens, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, William James,
Freud, Poincare, Planck, Whitehead, Einstein, Eddington, Bohr, Hardy, Heisenberg,
Schrodinger, Dobzhansky, Waddington
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