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245 00 $aGreat books of the Western World /$cEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. ; in collaboration with the University of Chicago ; [Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief]
250 $aFounders' edition.
264 1 $aChicago, Ill. :$bWilliam Benton,$c[1952]
264 4 $c©1952
300 $a54 volumes :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aGeneral title page in volume 1 only: each volume has special title page.
500 $a"Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the editor." L.C. copy neither numbered nor signed.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $g1.$tThe great conversation /$rR.M. Hutchins --$g2-3.$tThe great ideas --$g4.$tThe Iliad of Homer.$tThe Odyssey /$rHomer ; rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler --$g5.$tThe suppliant maidens.$tThe Persians.$tSeven against Thebes.$tPrometheus bound.$tThe Oresteia /$rAeschylus ; translated into English verse by G. M. Cookson.$tOedipus the king.$tOedipus at Colonus.$tAntigone.$tAjax.$tElectra.$tThe Trachiniae.$tPhiloctetes /$rSophocles ; translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb.$tRhesus.$tMedea.$tHippolytus.$tAlcestis.$tHeracleidae.$tThe suppliants.$tTrojan women.$tIon.$tHelen.$tAndromache.$tElectra.$tBacchantes.$tHecuba.$tHeracles mad.$tPheonician women.$tOrestes.$tIphigenia in Tauris.$tIphigenia in Aulis$tCyclops /$rEuripides ; translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge.$tThe Acharnians.$tThe knights.$tThe clouds.$tThe wasps.$tPeace.$tThe birds.$tThe frogs.$tLysistrata.$tThesmophoriazusae.$tEcclesiazousae.$tPlutus /$rAristophanes ; translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers --$g6.$tThe history /$rHerodotus ; translated by George Rawlinson.$tHistory of the Peloponnesian War /$rThucydides ; translated by Richard Crawley and revised by R. Feetham --$g7.$tCharmides.$tLysis.$tLaches.$tProtagoras.$tEuthydemus.$tCratylus.$tPhaedrus.$tIon.$tSymposium.$tMeno.$tEuthyphro.$tApology.$tCrito.$tPhaedo.$tGorgias.$tThe Republic.$tTimaeus.$tCritias.$tParmenides.$tTheaetetus.$tSophist.$tStatesmen.$tPhilebus.$tLaws /$rPlato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett.$tThe seventh letter /$rPlato ; translated by J. Harward --$g8.$tCategories.$tOn interpretation.$tPrior analytics.$tPosterior analytics.$tTopics.$tSophistical refutations.$tPhysics.$tOn the heavens.$tOn generation and corruption.$tMeteorology.$tMetaphysics.$tOn the soul /$rAristotle --$g9.$tHistory of animals.$tParts of animals.$tOn the motion of animals.$tOn the gait of animals.$tOn the generation of animals.$tNicomachean ethics.$tPolitics.$tThe Athenian constitution.$tRhetoric.$tPoetics /$rAristotle --$g10.$tWorks /$rHippocrates.$tOn the natural faculties /$rGalen --$g11.$tThe thirteen books of Euclid's Elements /$rEuclid.$tOn the sphere and cylinder.$tMeasurement of a circle.$tOn conoids and spheroids.$tOn spirals.$tOn the equilibrium of planes.$tThe sand reckoner.$tThe quadrature of the parabola.$tOn floating bodies.$tBook of lemmas.$tThe method treating of mechanical problems /$rArchimedes.$tOn conic sections /$rAppollonius of Perga.$tIntroduction to arithmetic /$rNicomachus --$g12.$tOn the nature of things /$rLucretius ; translated by H. A. J. Munro.$tThe discourses /$rEpictetus ; translated by George Long.$tThe meditations /$rMarcus Aurelius ; translated by George Long --$g13.$tEclogues.$tGeorgics.$tAeneid /$rVirgil ; translated into English verse by James Rhoades --$g14.$tThe lives of the noble Grecians and Romans /$rPlutarch ; translated by John Dryden --$g15.$tThe annals.$tThe histories /$rP. Cornelius Tacitus ; translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb --$g16.$tAlmagest /$rPtolemy ; translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro.$tOn the revolutions of heavenly spheres /$rNicolaus Copernicus ; translated by Charles Glenn Wallis.$tEpitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV-V).$tThe harmonies of the world (Book V) /$rJohannes Kepler ; translated by Charles Glenn Wallis --$g17.$tThe six Enneads /$rPlotinus ; translated by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page --$g18.$tThe confessions.$tThe city of God.$tOn Christian doctrine /$rAugustine --$g19-20.$tSumma theologica /$rThomas Aquinas ; translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan --$g21.$tThe divine comedy /$rDante ; translated by Charles Eliot Norton --$g22.$tTroilus and Criseyde.$tThe Cantebury tales /$rChaucer --$g23.$tThe prince /$rNiccolò Machiavelli.$tLeviathan /$rThomas Hobbes --$g24.$tGargantua and Pantagruel /$rRabelais --$g25.$tEssays /$rMichel de Montaigne --$g26.$tThe first part of King Henry the Sixth.$tThe second part of King Henry the Sixth.$tThe third part of King Henry the Sixth.$tThe tragedy of Richard the Third.$tThe comedy of errors.$tTitus Andronicus.$tThe taming of the shrew.$tThe two gentlemen of Verona.$tLove's labour's lost.$tRomeo and Juliet.$tThe tragedy of King Richard the Second.$tA midsummer night's dream.$tThe life and death of King John.$tThe merchant of Venice.$tThe first part of King Henry the Fourth.$tThe second part of King Henry the Fourth.$tMuch ado about nothing.$tThe life of King Henry the Fifth.$tJulius Caesar.$tAs you like it /$rWilliam Shakespeare --$g. 27.$tTwelfth night; or, What you will.$tThe tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.$tThe merry wives of Windsor.$tTroilus and Cressida.$tAll's well the ends well.$tMeasure for measure.$tOthello, the Moor of Venice.$tKing Lear.$tMacbeth.$tAntony and Cleopatra.$tCoriolanus.$tTimon of Athens.$tPericles, Prince of Tyre.$tCymbeline.$tThe winter's tale.$tThe tempest.$tThe famous history of the life of King Henry the Eighth.$tSonnets /$rWilliam Shakespeare --$g28.$tOn the loadstone and magnetic bodies /$rWilliam Gilbert.$tDialogues concerning the two new sciences /$rGalileo Galilei.$tOn the motion of the heart and blood in animals.$tOn the circulation of blood.$tOn the generation of animals /$rWilliam Harvey --$g29.$tThe history of Don Quixote de la Mancha /$rMiguel de Cervantes --$g30.$tThe adventure of learning.$tNovum organum.$tNew Atlantis /$rFrancis Bacon --$g31.$tRules for the direction of the mind.$tDiscourse on the method.$tMeditations on first philosophy.$tObjections against the meditations and replies.$tThe geometry /$rRené Descartes.$tEthics /$rBenedict de Spinoza --$g32.$tEnglish minor poems.$tParadise lost.$tSamson agonistes.$tAreopagitica /$rJohn Milton --$g33.$tThe provincial letters.$tPensées.$tScientific and mathematical essays /$rBlaise Pascal --$g34.$tMathematical principles of natural philosophy.$tOptics /$rSir Isaac Newton.$tTreatise on light /$rChristian Huygens --$g35.$tA letter concerning toleration.$tConcerning civil government, second essay.$tAn essay concerning human understanding /$rJohn Locke.$tThe principles of human knowledge /$rGeorge Berkeley.$tAn enquiry concerning human understanding /$rDavid Hume --$g36.$tGulliver's travels /$rJonathan Swift.$tThe life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman /$rLaurence Sterne --$g37.$tThe history of Tom Jones, a foundling /$rHenry Fielding --$g38.$tThe spirit of the laws /$rCharles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu.$tA disourse on the origin of inequality.$tA disourse on political economy.$tThe social contract /$rJean Jacques Rousseau --$g39.$tAn inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations /$rAdam Smith --$g40-41.$tThe decline and fall of the Roman Empire /$rGibbon --$g42.$tCritique of pure reason.$tFundamental principles of the metaphysic of morals.$tCritique of practical reason.$tExcerpts from The metaphysics of morals /$rKant --$g43.$tAmerican state papers.$tThe Federalist /$rAlexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay.$tOn liberty.$tConsiderations on representive government.$tUtilitarianism /$rJ.S. Mill --$g44.$tThe life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. /$rBoswell --$g45.$tElements of chemistry /$rAnthoine Laurent Lavoisier.$tAnalytical theory of heat /$rJean Baptiste Joseph Fourier.$tExperiment researches in electricity /$rMichael Faraday --$g46.$tThe philosophy of right.$tThe philosophy of history /$rGeorg Wilelm Friedrich Hegel --$g47.$tFaust /$rJohann Wolfgang von Goethe --$g48.$tMoby Dick; or, The whale /$rHerman Melville --$g49.$tThe origin of species by means of natural selection.$tThe descent of man, and selection in relation to sex /$rCharles Darwin --$g50.$tCapital /$rKarl Marx.$tManifesto of the Communist Party /$rKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels --$g51.$tWar and peace /$rCount Leo Tolstoy --$g52.$tThe brothers Karamazov /$rFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky --$g53.$tThe principles of psychology /$rWilliam James --$g54.$tThe origin and development of psycho-analysis.$tSelected papers on hysteria.$tThe sexual enlightenment of children.$tThe future prospects of psycho-analytic therapy.$tObservations on "wild" psycho-analysis.$tThe interpretation of dreams.$tOn narcissism.$tInstincts and their vicissitudes.$tRepression.$tThe unconscious.$tA general introduction to psycho-analysis.$tBeyond the pleasure principle.$tGroup psychology and the analysis of the ego.$tThe Ego and the Id.$tInhibitions, symptoms, and anxiety.$tThoughts for the times on war and death.$tCivilization and its discontents.$tNew introductory lectures on pscyho-analysis /$rSigmund Freud.
530 $aAlso issued online.
520 $aA massive set of classic books includes the most influential works of literature, philosophy, and science, in the history of the West.
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700 1 $aHutchins, Robert Maynard,$d1899-1977,$eeditor.
710 2 $aEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
710 2 $aUniversity of Chicago.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tGreat books of the Western World.$bFounders' ed.$dChicago] W. Benton [1952]$w(OCoLC)561472969
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