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 | short history |
This page was triggered by the tradition of The Great Books, which was brought to publication by Mortimer Adler in 1952
in 54 volumes, with a Second Edition of 60 volumes in 1990. A partial version exists for Kindle, but too much is omitted there,
including Adler's 2-volume "Syntopicon", thus this gradually-expanding alternative.
“In the case of good books, the point is not how many you can get thru, but rather how many can get thru to you.”
“Philosophy is everybody's business.”
'The Great Books of The Western World' began when the president of the University of Chicago, Robert M. Hutchins, asked professor Mortimer J. Adler to select a list of 'Great Books' to be taught to businessmen, who would then fill in any gaps in their prior education. One of the original students, William Benton, became chairman of Encyclopædia Britannica and proposed that Hutchins & Adler develop a multi-volume series that Encyclopædia Britannica could publish. Adler had students research and define the 102 'Great Ideas' that later became the two-volume "Syntopicon"; part of the final selection process was the requirement that each considered work dealt with at least 25 of those Great Idea topics.
Another original student, Walter Paepcke [1896-1960], became head od the Container Corporation of America and funded the Aspen Institute of Philosophical Research in 1950, which is based in Washington, DC.
The first edition of 'The Great Books of The Western World' containing 443 great works in a 54-volume set was released to great fanfare in New York City in April 1952. But sales were poor - only 1,800 sets sold that year - until Encyclopædia Britannica turned marketing over to their door-to-door sales force. (By 1961, they were selling 50,000 sets per year.)
Adler left the University of Chicago in 1952 and founded the Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco. Adler & Hutchins developed several other products - the annual "Great Ideas" volumes [1961-98], the 10-volume "Gateway To The Great Books" [1963] - and worked together until Hutchins's death in 1977.
A second edition of 'The Great Books of The Western World' was published in 1990, of 60 volumes, supposedly with inclusion of more Hispanic and female authors and, for the first time, works by Afro-American authors. {You can't really tell from the Table of Contents.} A comparison of the two editions has been constructed below on this page.
Neither the 54-volume nor 60-volume set is available on Amazon except as used; the Encyclopædia Britannica website appears broken (some pages not updated since 2008) but displays a list price of $995.
'Great Books' entry at Wikipedia
"Great Books of The Western World" entry at Wikipedia
Robert Maynard Hutchins [1899-1977] entry at Wikipedia
Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001] entry at Wikipedia
 | "Great Books of the Western World" 54-volume set [1952 & 1987]
Encyclopedia Britannica 9½x6½ hardcover [5/87] out of print/used Encyclopedia Britannica 9¼x6½ hardcover set [1952] out of print/many used Encyclopedia Britannica hardcover [1954] out of print/many used |
 | "Great Books of the Western World, Second Edition" 60-volume set [1990]
Encyclopedia Britannica 17¼x14¾ {sic} hardcover [1990] out of print/used Encyclopedia Britannica 18¼x12½ {sic} hardcover set [1990] out of print/many used 'Great Books' page at Encyclopedia Britannica website (list price $995 + s/h) |
"The Great Books Collection" [1952 & 1990] for Kindle
These Kindle editions are absent Adler's "Syntopicon" as well as many other works from the 1952 & 1990 collections – whether there will be
a third volume is doubtful, so this page is intended to supplement (eventually) missing books in paper and-or Kindle and-or online etext formats.
| Volume 1: Kindle Edition from H&H Books [10/2009] for $2.99
authors include Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Francois Rabelais, Jonathan Swift & Mark Twain: specific works include Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", "Don Quixote", Michel de Montaigne's "Essays", Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queen", "The Federalist Papers", Homer's "The Iliad" & "The Odyssey", Herman Melville's epic "Moby Dick", and Leonardo da Vinci's "Notebooks" Volume 2: Kindle Edition from H&H Books [10/2009] for $2.99 authors include Honoré de Balzac, Charles Darwin, John Dewey, Albert Einstein, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sigmund Freud, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Plato, Arthur Schopenhauer, Henry David Thoreau, Thucydides & Leo Tolstoy; specific works include "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels |
 | "Books from The Great Books of The Western World® Collection" on CD-ROM [2008]
B & R Samizdat Express CD-ROM [2/2008] list $39.00 - SOLD OUT! Manufacturer is honest about incompleteness of the content, which is about two-thirds of the 1952 original, and absent copyrighted material such as commentaries or introductions; contains versions of 29 volumes, partial versions of 14 volumes, and omits 11 volumes {The Great Conversation, Syntopicon I & II, 10, 16, 17, 28, 46, 52, 53, 54}. All content is text-only and in English, though translations may be other than found in G.B.W.W. |
'Great Books' by Author, A to Z
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"The Great Conversation: The Substance of A Liberal Education"
[GBWW Volume 1 1952] by Robert Maynard Hutchins
essay excerpt of 1990 at Encyclopedia Britannica website [posted 2008]
"The Great Conversation" entry at Wikipedia
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University of Chicago 12x9¼ hardcover [1991] out of print/used Encyclopedia Britannica 9x6¼ hardcover [1971] out of print/used Encyclopedia Britannica 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1952] out of print/used |
"The Great Ideas: Syntopicon" [1952] by Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001]
two-volumes that include essays written on 102 'great ideas' topics
 | "Syntopicon I: Angel to Love" [GBWW Volume 2 1952]
Encyclopedia Britannica 9½x6½ hardcover [1952] out of print/used Encyclopedia Britannica hardcover [1952] out of print/used "Syntopicon II: Man to World" [GBWW Volume 3 1952 & rev 1990] Encyclopedia Britannica 9½x6½hardcover [1990] out of print/used Encyclopedia Britannica 9x6½ hardcover [1987] out of print/used Encyclopedia Britannica 9½x6¼ hardcover [1971] out of print/used Encyclopedia Britannica 9x56½ hardcover [1952] out of print/used Encyclopedia Britannica 9¼x6 hardcover [1952] out of print/used |
 | "The Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought" [1992] by Mortimer J. Adler same 102 essays as the Syntopicon, with a new Introduction Scribner Classics 9½x8 hardcover [1999] out of print/many used Macmillan Publng 9½x7¾ hardcover [10/92] out of print/used |
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Dante Alighieri [1265?–1321]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri
epic poem "The Divine Comedy" [circa 1310]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy
http://www.danteinferno.info/
"In A Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, & The Mysteries of Love"
[HarperCollins] by Joseph Luzzi
Thomas Aquinas [1225-74]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas
"Summa Theologica" [written 1259-74]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Theologica
Greek playwright Aristophanes [446?-386? B.C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristophanes
Greek philosopher Aristotle [384-322 B.C.E.] Page
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Greek philosopher Aristotle [384-322 B.C.E.] Quotations Page at Working Minds
 | "Great Books of The Western World: The Works of Aristotle" [1952 & 1990]
Aristotle I Volume #8: G.B.W.W. 9¼x6½ hardcover [1952] out of print/used Aristotle II Volume #9: G.B.W.W. 9¼x6½ hardcover [1952] out of print/used Aristotle II Volume #9: G.B.W.W. 9x6½ hardcover [1952] out of print/used Aristotle II Volume #9: G.B.W.W. 9½x6½ hardcover [1952] out of print/used Aristotle II Volume #9: G.B.W.W. hardcover [1952] out of print/used Aristotle I & II Volumes #8 & 9: G.B.W.W. hardcover [1982] out of print/used Aristotle I & II Volumes #8 & 9: G.B.W.W. 9x6 hardcover [1988] out of print/used Aristotle I Volume #7: G.B.W.W. 9¼x6½ hardcover [1990] out of print/used Aristotle II Volume #8: G.B.W.W. 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1990] out of print/used |
 | "Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)" for Kindle [2013]
Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [2/2013] for $2.99 Contains sections on LOGIC (six essays), PHYSICS (30 essays), THE METAPHYSICS, ETHICS & POLITICS (six essays), RHETORIC & POETICS (five essays), and BIOGRAPHIES by Thomas Davidson, Elbert Hubbard, Diogenes Laërtius, Thomas Davidson, and Charles McRae |
Roman emperor & philosopher Marcus Aurelius [121-180 C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius
"Meditations" [IVth Century]
British author Jane Austen [1775-1817]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen
Jeremy Bentham [1748-1832]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham
French philosopher Henri Bergson [1859-1941]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson
awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature
James Boswell [1740-95]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boswell
"The Life of Samuel Johnson" [1791]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Samuel_Johnson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
Dr. Samuel Johnson [1709-84] Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
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Willa Cather [1873-1947] Page
Geoffrey Chaucer [1343?-1400]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer
"The Canterbury Tales" [XVth Century]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales
Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero [106-43 B.C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero
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Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad [1857-1924] Page
"Heart of Darkness" [1899 novel]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
which was adapted as the movie "Apocalypse Now" [1979]
polymath & visionary Leonardo da Vinci [1452-1519]
"Notebooks" Translated by Jean Paul Richter in 1883
Charles Darwin [1809-82] Page
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French author Honoré de Balzac [1799-1850]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac
Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [1547-1616]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes
"Don Quixote" [1605 & 1615]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne [1533-92]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne
"Essays" [1580]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_(Montaigne)
Alexis de Tocqueville [1805-59]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville
"Democracy In America" [1835 & 1840]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America
Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza [1632-77] Page
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Daniel Defoe [1660?-1731]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe
French philosopher René Descartes [1596-1650]
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American educator John Dewey [1859-1952] Page
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"Experience and Education" [1938]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_and_Education_(book)
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British author Charles Dickens [1812-70] Page
"Little Dorrit" serial novel [1855-57]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Dorrit
Russian author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky [1821-81]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky
physicist Albert Einstein [1879-1955] Page
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Albert Einstein Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
"Relativity: The Special and The General Theory" [German 1916, English 1920]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity:_The_Special_and_the_General_Theory
Mary Anne Evans [1819-1880] known as George Eliot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot
"Middlemarch" [serialized 1871-72, book 1874]
"The most humane, the most morally serious novel ever produced in English"
"My Life In Middlemarch" [] by Rebecca Mead
American-British poet T.S. {Thomas Stearns} Eliot, OM [1888-1965]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot
"The Waste Land" [1922 poem]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waste_Land
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Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82] Page
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
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American Transcendentalism Movement Page
Greek philosopher Epictetus [55-135 C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus
"The Discourses" [written circa 108 CE, printed 1535]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourses_of_Epictetus
Greek playwright Euripedes [480?-406 B.C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripedes
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American novelist William Faulkner [1897-1962] Page
Wm. Faulkner Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
"A Rose For Emily" [1930 short story]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rose_for_Emily
"The Federalist Papers" [1787-88]
a series of 85 articles & essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison
'The Federalist' Papers entry at Wikipedia
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F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] Page
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"The Great Gatsby" 1925 Novel & Movies Page
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"The Last Tycoon" 1941/1993 Novel & Movies Page
F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotations Page at Working Minds
psychoanalysis pioneer Sigmund Freud [1856-1939]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
English historian Edward Gibbon [1737-94]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon
"The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire" [1776-89]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire
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Nathaniel Hawthorne [1804-64] Page
German philosopher Martin Heidegger [1889-1976] Page
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"What Is Metaphysics?" [1929 essay]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060637633
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Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961] Page
Ernest Hemingway Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" [1936 short story]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Short_Happy_Life_of_Francis_Macomber
German author Hermann Hesse [1877-1962]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse
awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature
epic poet Homer [VIIIth Century B.C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer
"The Iliad" epic poem [VIIIth Century B.C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad
sequel "The Odyssey" epic poem [VIIIth Century B.C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey
Aldous Huxley [1894-1963]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley
"Brave New World" [1932]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
"Brave New World" TV movie [1980] /tt0080468/
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"Brave New World" TV show [Syfy Channel for 2017? broadcast]
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Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen [1828-1906]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen
Anglo-American novelist Henry James, OM [1843-1916]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James
American philosopher William James [1842-1910]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James
"Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking" [1907]
Irish ex-patriot author James Joyce [1882-1941]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
Franz Kafka [1884-1923]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka
"The Trial (Der Prozeß)" [1925]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial
"The Castle (Das Schloss)" [1926]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_(novel)
"The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung)" [1915 novella]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
German philosopher Immanuel Kant [1724-1804] Page
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British economist John Maynard Keynes [1883-1946] Page
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Col. T.E. {Thomas Edward} Lawrence, CB, DSO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.E._Lawrence
"Seven Pillars of Wisdom" [1922 & 1926]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Pillars_of_Wisdom
(Nelle) Harper Lee [1926-2016]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
"To Kill A Mockingbird" [1960 bestseller]
 | As described by his tomboy daughter, an idealistic lawyer in 1932 Alabama agrees to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman, revealing the depths of local bigotry & racism; awarded the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus [99-55 B.C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretius
Niccolò Machiavelli [1469-1527]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
"The Prince" [circulated 1513, printed 1532]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince
Karl Heinrich Marx [1818-83] & Friedrich Engels [1820-95]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels
"The Communist Manifesto" [1848]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto
"Capital (Das Kapital)" [1867 & 1885 & 1894]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital
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Herman Melville [1819-91] Page
epic novel "Moby-Dick: or, The Whale" [1851]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick
English poet John Milton [1608-74]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton
"Areopagitica" [1644]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areopagitica
epic poem "Paradise Lost" [1667]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost
"Samson Agonistes" [1671]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Agonistes
"The English Minor Poems" [1901] Edited by Samuel Thurber
http://www.amazon.com/Minor-Poems-Milton-John-ebook/dp/B004TPFGE2/
Montesquieu [1689-1755]
{full name Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montesquieu
"On The Spirit of The Laws (De l'Esprit des Lois)" [1748]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Laws
Sir Thomas More [1478-1535]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More
"Utopia" [1516]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [1844-1900] Page
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
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Eugene O'Neill [1888-1953] Page
"Mourning Becomes Electra" stageplay trilogy [1931]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourning_Becomes_Electra
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George Orwell [1903-50] Page
George Orwell Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
"Animal Farm" 1945 Novel & Movies Page
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" 1949 Novel & Movies Page
Greek philosopher Plato [427-347? B.C.E.] Page
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Greek philosopher Plotinus [205-270 C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus
"The Six Enneads" [circa 270 C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneads
Greek historian Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus [46?-120 C.E.]
known as Plutarch of Chaeronea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch
http://www.livius.org/pi-pm/plutarch/plutarch.htm
"The Lives of The Noble Grecians and Romans" [written First-Second Century C.E., printed 1517]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Lives
ancient world scientist Claudius Ptolemy [100?-170?) A.D.]
http://www.amazon.com/stores/Ptolemy/author/B001JOSX5U?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy
French Renaissance scholar François Rabelais [1483?-1553]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais
Swiss philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau [1712-78]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
British philosopher Bertrand Russell [1872-1970] Page
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Bertrand Russell Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
"The Problems of Philosophy" [1912]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problems_of_Philosophy
Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana [1863-1952] Page
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French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80] Page
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German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer [1788-1860]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, OM [1875-1965]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer
awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize
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Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616] Page
'Shakespeare On Film' Festival Pages
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'Great Books' contains pretty much all of Shakespeare's work
{in Volumes 26 & 27 in 1952, Volumes 24 & 25 in the 1990 Second Edition}
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw
awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature & shared the 1938 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay
George Bernard Shaw Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
"Saint Joan" stageplay [1923]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joan_(play)
adapted by Grahame Green as the 1957 film directed by Otto Preminger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joan_(film)
Adam Smith [1723-90] Page
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Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [1918-2008]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature
"Cancer Ward" novel [1967]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Ward
"In The First Circle" novel [1968 & 2009]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Circle
Greek playwright Sophocles [496-405 B.C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles
English poet Edmund Spenser [1552-99]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser
"The Faerie Queene" [1590 & 1596]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene
Irish satirist Jonathan Swift [1667-1745]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift
"Gulliver's Travels" novel [1726, rev 1735]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels
Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus [56?-117? C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus
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Henry David Thoreau [1817-62] Page
Henry David Thoreau Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
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American Transcendentalism Movement Page
Greek historian Thucydides [460?-395? B.C.E.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides
Russian writer Count Lyev Nikolayevich 'Leo' Tolstoy [1828-1910]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
possible author Turoldus the Poet [XIth Century]
"The Song of Roland" [XIIth Century]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Roland
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American humorist Mark Twain [1835-1910] Page
Mark Twain Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
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"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Novel & Movies Page
sociologist-economist Thorstein B. Veblen [1857-1929] Page
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French philosopher François-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire [1694-1778] Page
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire
"Candide, ou l'Optimisme (Candide: or, The Optimist)" [1759]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749-1832]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
German sociologist & philosopher Max Weber [1864-1920]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber
selections from "Essays in Sociology" [1946]
http://www.amazon.com/Max-Weber-Essays-Sociology/dp/B0010NQ2EO/
Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS [1861-1947]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead
"An Introduction To Mathematics" [1911]
included in Volume 56 of the 1990 edition of 'The Great Books of The Western World' series
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41568
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philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein [1889-1951] Page
"Philosophical Investigations" [1953]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Investigations
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"To The Lighthouse" [1927 novel]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Lighthouse
Irish poet W.B. {William Butler} Yeats [1865-1939]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats
Both Editions in Volume Order
1952 edition, reprinted in 1988
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Volume 1: The Great Conversation
Volume 11: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga {dropped in Second Volume 21: Dante Alighieri
Volume 31: René Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza
Volume 41: Edward Gibbon II
Volume 51: Tolstoy's "War and Peace"
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1990 edition of 60 volumes
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Second Edition Volume 1: Syntopicon I {moved from Volume 2}
Second Edition Volume 2: Syntopicon II {moved from Volume 3} Second Edition Volume 3: Homer {moved from Volume 4} Second Edition Volume 4: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes {moved from Volume 5} Second Edition Volume 5: Herodotus, Thucydides {moved from Volume 6} Second Edition Volume 6: Plato {moved from Volume 7} Second Edition Volume 7: Aristotle I {moved from Volume 8} Second Edition Volume 8: Aristotle II {moved from Volume 9} Second Edition Volume 9: Hippocrates, Galen {moved from Volume 10} Second Edition Volume 10: Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus {moved from Volume 11} Second Edition Volume 11: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius {moved from Volume 12}
Second Edition Volume 21: Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes {moved from Volume 23}
Second Edition Volume 31: Molière, Jean Racine
Second Edition Volume 41: James Boswell {moved from Volume 44}
Second Edition Volume 51: Tolstoy's "War and Peace"
Volume 55: 20th Century Philosophy & Religion
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Other Related Works
"The Great Ideas Today" [1961-1997]
Hutchins and Adler and Encyclopedia Britannica worked very hard at what might appear to be 'milking' the franchise. The annual "The Great Ideas Today" volumes overlapped the 10-volume "Gateway To The Great Books" and the 1992 "Great Ideas Lexicon" and other stand-alone books. The content, however, shows up as high quality – based on authors & panelists such as Hannah Arendt, Saul Bellow, Aldous Huxley, Cardinal Newman, Chaim Potok, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Tillich, Mark Van Doren & H.G. Wells – and may not be available elsewhere, so there is no reason not to include these books on this page.
  
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"The Great Ideas Today, 1961"
Encyclopaedia Britannica 9¼x6½ hardcover [1961] out of print/scarce "The Great Ideas Today, 1962" Encyclopaedia Britannica 9x6½ hardcover [1962] out of print/used "The Great Ideas Today, 1963" Encyclopaedia Britannica hardcover [1963] out of print/used "The Great Ideas Today, 1966" Encyclopaedia Britannica 9½x7 hardcover [1966] out of print/used "The Great Ideas Today, 1967" Encyclopaedia Britannica 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1967] out of print/used "The Great Ideas Today, 1968" Encyclopaedia Britannica 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1968] out of print/40+ used "The Great Ideas Today, 1971" Encyclopaedia Britannica hardcover [1971] out of print/used |
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Books-Western-World-Ideas/dp/B000HMMFKE/ 1964
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Today-1972/dp/B001DN8L0Y/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Today-1973/dp/0852292864/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Today-1978/dp/0852293445/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Today-1979/dp/B000RPA23S/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Today-1980/dp/0852293763/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Today-1981/dp/0852293852/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Today-Books-1988/dp/0852294905/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Today-Britannica-Books/dp/0852295081/ 1989
http://www.amazon.com/Britannica-Encyclopedia-Developments-Reconsiderations-Additions/dp/B003AYRV1O/ 1990
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Today-Britannica-Books/dp/0852295502/ 1991
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Today-1992/dp/0852295693/
http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Ideas-Today-Britannica/dp/0852295898/ 1993
http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Ideas-Today-1995/dp/0852296142/ 1995
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Today-Britannica-Black/dp/0852296584/ 1997
 | "Great Books" [1898] by Frederic William Farrar English theologian Farrar covers six topics: Great Books, John Bunyan, Wm. Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, and Thomas à Kempis ("The Imitation of Christ") BiblioBazaar 8¾x5¾ pb [3/2009] for $21.59 BiblioLife 9x6 hardcover [3/2009] for $29.69 online etext available free at Internet Archive |
 | "Gateway To The Great Books" 10-Volume Set [1963] Edited by Robert M. Hutchins & Mortimer J. Adler, Illustrations by Fred Steffen Volume titles: 1: Introduction, Syntopical Guide; 2: Imaginative Literature I; 3: Imaginative Literature II; 4: Imaginative Literature III; 5: Critical Essays; 6: Man and Society I; 7: Man and Society II; 8: Natural Science; 9: Mathematics; and 10: Philosophical Essays • online detailed list of all contents William Benton 9x7½ hardcover [1963] 10 volumes - out of print/used |
 | "The Idea of Religion in Great Books of The Western World" for Kindle [1967] 20-page essay credited to Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler & Otto Bird Kindle Edition from Booktango [6/2012] for $$2.99 |
 | "Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of The Western World" [1996] by film critic David Denby After writing film reviews for The Atlantic, New York and other magazines, and before his current job as film critic at The New Yorker, Denby took a breather and re-enrolled at Columbia University and re-took their Core Curriculum courses, which cover The Great Books. He leads readers on a grand tour celebrating authors from Homer to Boccaccio to Marx to Beauvoir in an extraordinary blend of criticism, reporting, autobiography, cultural commentary, and self-discovery. Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [6/2013] for $10.53 Simon & Schuster 9¼x6½ pb [9/97] for $11.08 Simon & Schuster 9½x6½ hardcover [9/96] out of print/hundreds used |
 | "How To Think About The Great Ideas: From The Great Books of Western Civilization" [2000] by Mortimer J. Adler, Edited by Max Weismann The publication of "The Great Books" provoked much controversy around Mortimer Adler; he was able to leave Chicago academia and found the Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco, where one of his innovations was a half-hour television program about philosophy for N.E.T. (now P.B.S.) based on "The Great Books". This book contains transcripts of those 52 TV programs. Kindle Edition from Open Court [2000 edition] for $14.99 Open Court 8½x5¾ pb [3/2000] for $19.38 |
 | "The Book of Great Books: A Guide To 100 World Classics" [2000] by W. John Campbell, PhD Of course, there is overlap with G.B.W.W. – Austen, Chaucer, Conrad, Dante, Dickens, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Homer, Ibsen, Melville, Milton, Shakespeare, Swift, Twain, Virgil – but the plentiful choices outside of the G.B.W.W. 'canon' prove interesting: Maya Angelou, Charlotte Bronte, Albert Camus, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, Shelley, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, J.R.R. Tolkien, Alice Walker, Edith Wharton, and others; each essay runs about eight pages. Metro Books 9&frac13x6½ hardcover [4/2001] out of print/80+ used Barnes & Noble Books 9½x6½ hardcover [2000] out of print/70+ used |
 | "A Great Idea At The Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of The Great Books" [2008] by Alex Beam
Kindle Edition from PublicAffairs [11/2008] for $9.39 PublicAffairs 8x5½ pb [10/2009] out of print/60+ used PublicAffairs 8¼x5½ hardcover [11/2008] for $19.13 |
 | "The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of The West’s Classic Literature" [2009] by Anthony O'Hear Philosophy professor O'Hear has written original essay-critiques covering classic literature across 2,500 years in 400 pages. Intercollegiate Studies Institute 8¾x6 pb [9/2011] for $15.12 Intercollegiate Studies Institute hardcover [2/2009] out of print/many used |
 | "The Whole Five Feet: What The Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else" [2009] by Christopher R. Beha
author recounts his life and insights while reading the 51-volume Harvard Classics 'Five Foot Shelf' [1909] over a year's time - relevant here because there is so much overlap Kindle Edition from Grove Press [5/2010] for $1.99 {sic} Grove Press 8¼x5½ pb [5/2010] for $11.10 Grove Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [5/2009] for $34.95 |
 | "The Dream of A Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler and The Great Books Idea" [2013] by Tim Lacy
Palgrave Macmillan 8½x5½ hardcover [11/2013] for $77.52 {sic} |
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 | 'All The Great Books (Abridged)' stageplay [2002] The ensemble Reduced Shakespeare Company found great success with their "Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)" 1987 show tour and by 2002 they also created 'All The Great Books (Abridged)', which covers 80+ 'Great Books' in under two hours. live performances March 2014 at The Laguna Playhouse in California "Four Scripts by The Reduced Shakespeare Company" [2005] includes "All The Great Books (abridged)", "The Complete History of America (abridged)", "The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)" and "Western Civilization: The Complete Musical (abridged)" 254-page Broadway Play Publng pb [2005] out of print/scarce |
"Masterpieces" Series by Frank N. Magill
"Plot summaries, descriptions of principal characters, critical evaluations, and the significance
of each major work of fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry"
 | "Masterpieces of World Literature" [Harper & Row, 1952] Edited by Frank N. Magill 990 pages of summaries and analyses of 270 essential literary classics Collins Reference 7¾x5 pb [8/91] out of print/used Collins Reference 9½x7¾ hardcover [8/91] for $37.14 |
 | "Masterpieces of World Philosophy" [1990] Edited by Frank N. Magill, Introduction by John Roth 700 pages of summaries and analyses of almost 100 essential philosophical works HarperCollins 9x6 pb [1990] out of print/used Collins Reference 9½x8 hardcover [8/91] for $31.27 |
 | "Masterpieces of Afro-American Literature" [1992] Edited by Frank N. Magill 600 pages of summaries and analyses of 91 authors and 149 essential Afro-American literary works Collins Reference 9½x8 hardcover [12/92] out of print/140+ used |
 | "Masterpieces of American Literature" [1993] Edited by Frank N. Magill 640 pages of summaries and analyses of over 200 essential American literary classics Collins Reference 9½x7¾ hardcover [10/93] out of print/used |
 | "Masterpieces of Women's Literature" [1996] Edited by Frank N. Magill 600 pages of summaries and analyses of {unknown number} essential women's/feminist literary works Collins Reference 9½x8 hardcover [2/96] out of print/many used |
"The Great Books" [1993-2006]
The Great Books series was a standout on cable TV in the 1990s - The Learning Channel
IMDb lists 26 episodes while Wikipedia lists 47, 1993-2006
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200341
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_(TV_program)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_(TV_program)#List_of_episodes = List of episodes?
"Le Morte d'Arthur" [#1 September 8, 1993]
"Frankenstein" [#2 September 8, 1993] by Mary Shelley [1797-1851]
"Origin of Species" [#3 September 8, 1993]
by Charles Darwin [1809-82]
"Alice in Wonderland" [#4 June 4, 1994]
by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) [1832-98]
"War of the Worlds" [#5 June 11, 1994]
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain [1835-1910] [#6 September 3, 1994]
Homer's "The Odyssey" [#7 September 14, 1996]
"The Republic" by Plato [427-347 BCE] [#8 September 14, 1996]
"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne [1804-64] [#9 September 14, 1996]
"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville [1819-91] [#10 September 14, 1996]
"The Prince" by Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli [1469-1527] [#11 September 14, 1996]
"Native Son" by Richard Wright [1908-60] [#12 September 15, 1996]
"Gulliver's Travels" [#13 September 15, 1996]
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller [1923-99] [#14 September 15, 1996]
"Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams" [#15 September 15, 1996] /tt2899156/
"Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra [1547-1616] [#16 June 28, 1997]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ApSa7shuA 46.31 Sep 7, 2016
"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens [1812-70] [#17 June 28, 1997]
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] [#18 September 13, 1997]
"Walden" [1854] by Henry David Thoreau [1817-62] [#19 September 13, 1997]
Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems" [#20 September 14, 1997]
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey [1935-2001] [#21 September 12, 1998]
"The Naked and The Dead" by Norman Mailer [1923-2007] [#22 September 13, 1998]
"Lord of The Flies" [#23 February 13, 1999]
"The Red Badge of Courage" [#24 February 13, 1999]
"All Quiet On The Western Front" [#25 May 15, 1999]
"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad [1857-1924] [#26 August 21, 1999]
"Dracula" by Bram Stoker [#27 August 22, 1999]
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen [1775-1817] [#28 September 3, 1999]
"Madame Bovary" [1856] by Gustave Flaubert [1821-80] [#29 February 19, 2000]
"Crime and Punishment" [1866] by Fyodor Dostoevsky [1821-81] [#30 June 10, 2000]
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" [#31 June 11, 2000]
"The Grapes of Wrath" [1939 novel] by John Steinbeck [1902-68] [#32 September 17, 2000]
"Nineteen Eighty Four" [#33 October 11, 2000]
"Les Misérables" [#34 December 24, 2000]
"The Jungle" [1906 novel] by Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] [#35 February 17, 2001]
"The Right Stuff" [#36 May 18, 2001]
"20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" [#37 August 11, 2001]
"Poe Tales of Terror/Tales of Edgar Allan Poe" [#38 October 30, 2001]
"The Bible: Book of Genesis" [#39 December 24, 2001]
"The Bible: Book of Exodus" [#40 December 24, 2001]
"Inferno" [1308] by Dante Alighieri [1265-1321] [#41 February 23, 2002]
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë [1818-48] [#42 May 2, 2002]
"The Metamorphosis" [1915] by Franz Kafka [1883-1924] [#43 August 8, 2002]
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" [1900 novel] by L. Frank Baum [1856-1919] [#44 August 30, 2002]
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" [1886 novella] by Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-94] [#45 November 8, 2002]
"Arabian Nights" folk tales [#46 December 5, 2002]
"2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968 novel] by Stanley Kubrick [1928-99] & Arthur C. Clarke [1917-2008] [#47 June 20, 2006]
 | "Remarkable Books: The World's Most Beautiful and Historic Works" [2017] from Dorling Kindersley
Dorling Kindersley 12x10¼ hardcover [9/2017] for $19.49 "Written Words That Inspired The World" • A beautifully-illustrated coffee-table guide to more than 75 of the world's most celebrated, rare, and seminal books and handwritten manuscripts, with discussions of their purpose, features, and creators, organized by era • Each essay is wonderfully illustrated; contents include: 3000 BCE to 999 CE: "Egyptian Books of The Dead"; "I Ching"; "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu; "Mahabharata"; "Dead Sea Scrolls"; "Book of Kells"; "The Blue Qur'an"; "Diamond Sutra"; and "The Exeter Book"; 1000 to 1449 CE: "The Tale of Genji"; "Canon of Medicine" by ibn Sina; "The Domesday Book"; "The Gospels of Henry The Lion"; and "Les Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry"; 1450 to 1649 CE: "The Gutenberg Bible"; "Elementa Geometriae by Euclid"; "Nuremberg Chronicle"; "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri; "The Codex Leicester" by Leonardo da Vinci [1452-1519]; "Vier Bücher" by Albrecht Dürer; "Il Principe" by Niccolo |
| Machiavelli; "Les Propheties" by Nostradamus; "The Aubin Codex"; "Don Quixote" by Migeual de Cervantes Saavedra; "King James Bible" by the translation committee; "William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies"; "Sistemi del Mondo" by Galileo Galilei; and "The Bay Psalms Book"; 1650 to 1899 CE: "Micrographia" by Robert Hooke; "Philos-ophie Naturalis Prin-cipia Mathematica" by Sir Isaac Newton; "Systema Naturae" by Carolus Linneaus; "Le Encyclopédie" edited by Denis Diderot & Jean d'Alembert; "A Dictionary of The English Lang-uage" by Dr. Samuel Johnson; "Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis by Virgil" printed by John Baskerville; "Tristram Shandy" by Laurence Sterne; "Fables In Verse by Aesop" printed by John Newbery; "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith; "Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine; "Songs of Innocence and Experience" by William Blake; "Birds of America" by John James Audobon; "Procedure For Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong In Dots" by Louis Braille; the guidebooks of Karl Baedeker; "The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens; "The Holy Land" by David Roberts; "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe; "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman; "On The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin; "Alice's Adventures In Wonder-land" by Lewis Carroll; "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx; "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer" printed by Kelmscott Press; and "Un Coup de Dés" by Stephane Mallarmé; 1900 forward: "The Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum; "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter; "The Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm" by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, illustrated by Arthur Rackham; "General Theory of Relativity" by Albert Einstein; "Pro Dva Kvadrata (About Two Squares)" children's book by El Lissitzky; Penguin's First Ten Paper-back Books; "The Diary of A Young Girl" by Anne Frank; "The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; "Le Deuxiéme Sexe (The Second Sex)" by Simone de Beauvoir; "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan; "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson; and "Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (The Little Red Book)" |
The Western Canon
of Philosophy & Literature
'Western Canon' entry at Wikipedia
 | "The Western Canon: The Books and Schools For The Ages" [1994] by literary critic Harold Bloom [1930-2019] A survey of the major literary works of Europe and the Americas since the 14th century, focusing on 26 works that critic Bloom considered sublime and representative of their nations and of the Western canon Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [6/2014] for $14.99 Riverhead Books 9x6 pb [9/95] for $18.00 Riverhead Books pb [1995] out of print/used Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 9½x6¾ hardcover [10/94] out of print/used |
 | "Debating The Canon: A Reader From Addison To Nafisi, 1709-2002" [2005] Edited by Lee Morrissey essays from 42 contributors that include Chinua Achebe, Mortimer J. Adler, Theodor Adorno, William J. Bennett, Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, T.S. Eliot, Henry Louis Gates Jr., E.D. Hirsch Jr., David Hume, Samuel Johnson, Katha Pollitt, Richard Rorty, Edward Said, Leo Strauss Palgrave Macmillan 9x6 pb [9/2005] for $51.55 {sic} Palgrave Macmillan 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $130.14 {sic} |
 | "The Western Canon of Classic Literature: The Great Books of The Western World" [2016] contents plagiarized from Wikipedia by Peter J. King {aka Paul F. Kisak} |
 | "Great Authors of The Western Canon: Biographies of Twenty-Six Famous Authors" [2017] contents plagiarized from Wikipedia by Paul F. Kisak |
 | "The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon - Five Decades of Writing On American Literature by Harold Bloom" [2019] Edited by David Mikics Library of America 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2019] for $22.49 |
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A note to himself circa 1940 by Beatnik poet & novelist Jack Kerouac [1922-69]
has recently been made available as a photo on the internet.
The title at the top reads "REQUIRED READING FOR J.K.:"
1. Indian Scripture
2. Chinese [Scriptures]
3. Old and New Testament
4. Gibbon and Plutarch
5. Homer (again)
6. Shakespeare (again)
7. Wolfe (always)
ETC. ETC.
“Finnegan’s Wake”
“Outline of History” (again)
Thoreau and Emerson (ditto)
Joseph Conrad
Proust’s “Remembrance”
Dante (again)
L i n k s
Adler's Institute for Philosophical Research [1952-1990?] based in San Francisco, then Chicago
Adler's Center for the Study of The Great Ideas [est. 1990] based in Chicago
The Great Books Curriculum for 9th-12th grade [est. 1999] is promoted
by the non-denominational Xian Worldview Academy [est. 1996]
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