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The set includes 517 works by 130 authors. Nearly all works are printed in full. Works were selected because of contemporary significance, re-readability in the sense that great books are inexhaustible, and universal relevance in dealing with problems of thought and action that confront human beings in every age. The second edition has added works by Calvin, Erasmus, Moliere, Racine, Voltaire, Diderot, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Balzac, Austen, George Eliot, Dickens, Mark Twain and Ibsen, together with 45 authors from the first part of the 20th century. The 20th century authors include: in philosophy and religion - Russell, Wittgenstein and Barth; in physical science - Planck, Whitehead, Einstein, Heisenberg and Waddington; in social science - Tawney, Keynes, Frazer and Levi-Strauss; and in literature - Shaw, Conrad, Mann, Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Orwell and Beckett. The Syntopicon, a two-volume index to the ideas in the Great Books, gives 88,400 references. A reader's guide entitled The Great Conversation is supplied free with the set. The price quoted is for the Scholar's binding (red). Please send orders from North America to Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc, Britannica Centre, 310 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60604.Product Identifiers
PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica (Uk) LTD
ISBN-139780852295311
eBay Product ID (ePID)88370091
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Book TitleGreat Books of the Western World
AuthorMortimer J. Adler
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary Theory
Publication Year1991
Number of Pages37844 Pages
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Item Height240mm
Item Width160mm
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EditorMortimer J. Adler
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 06 Jul, 2016
Great books of the Western World Vol 50.
Bought this book, Vol 50, as this book had gone missing from my complete set of 60!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
