Great Books of the Western World
Considered part of the collection, though not printed:
- Holy Bible (it was assumed that nearly all households already have one)
Volumes in the collection (1st edition):
- Vol. 1 - The Great Conversation
- Vol. 2 - Syntopicon I
- Vol. 3 - Syntopicon II
- Vol. 4 - Homer
- Vol. 5 - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
- Vol. 6 - Herodotus, Thucydides
- Vol. 7 - Plato
- Vols. 8-9 - Aristotle
- Vol. 10 - Hippocrates, Galen
- Vol. 11 - Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga, Nicomachus of Gerasa
- Vol. 12 - Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
- Vol. 13 - Virgil
- Vol. 14 - Plutarch
- Vol. 15 - P. Cornelius Tacitus
- Vol. 16 - Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler
- Vol. 17 - Plotinus
- Vol. 18 - Augustine of Hippo
- Vols. 19-20 - Thomas Aquinas
- Vol. 21 - Dante Alighieri
- Vol. 22 - Geoffrey Chaucer
- Vol. 23 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes
- Vol. 24 - François Rabelais
- Vol. 25 - Michel de Montaigne
- Vols. 26-27 - William Shakespeare
- Vol. 28 - William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey
- Vol. 29 - Miguel de Cervantes
- Vol. 30 - Sir Francis Bacon
- Vol. 31 - René Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza
- Vol. 32 - John Milton
- Vol. 33 - Blaise Pascal
- Vol. 34 - Sir Isaac Newton, Christian Huygens
- Vol. 35 - John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume
- Vol. 36 - Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne
- Vol. 37 - Henry Fielding
- Vol. 38 - Baron de Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Vol. 39 - Adam Smith
Volumes in the collection (1st edition, cont.):
Added in the second edition:
- Vol. 20 - John Calvin
- Vol. 23 - Desiderius Erasmus
- Vol. 31 - Molière, Jean-Baptiste Racine
- Vol. 34 - Voltaire, Denis Diderot
- Vol. 43 - Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Vol. 44 - Alexis de Tocqueville
- Vol. 45 - Honoré de Balzac
- Vol. 46 - Jane Austen, George Eliot
- Vol. 47 - Charles Dickens
- Vol. 48 - Mark Twain
- Vol. 52 - Henrik Ibsen
- Vol. 55 - William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Barth
- Vol. 56 - Henri Poincaré, Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, Niels Bohr, G. H. Hardy, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Theodosius Dobzhansky, C. H. Waddington
- Vol. 57 - Thorstein Veblen, R. H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes
- Vol. 58 - Sir James George Frazer, Max Weber, Johan Huizinga, Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Vol. 59 - Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, James Joyce
- Vol. 60 - Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett
- Earnest, The Importance of Being
- Earth, Journey to the Center of the
- Earth, To the Ends of the
- East of Eden
- Eaters, The Lotos- (1833)
- Ecce Homo
- Ecclesiastical History
- Ecclesiastical Polity, The Laws of
- Ecclesiazusae, The
- Eclogues
- Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
- Economics (Aristotle)
- Economics (Xenophon)
- Economy, On Political
- Eden, East of
- Education, On (Milton)
- Edwin Drood, The Mystery of
- Education, On (Rousseau)
- Education, Democracy and
- Education of Henry Adams, The
- Education and Other Essays, The Aims of
- Education of Women, The
- Edward the Second
- Ego, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the
- Ego and the Id, The
- Eighty Days, Around the World in
- Either/Or
- Electra (Euripides)
- Electra (Sophocles)
- Electricity, Experimental Researches in
- Elements of Chemistry
- Elements of Ethics, The Metaphysical
- Elements of Geometry
- Eleonora
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emile
- Emma
- Empiricism, Essays in Radical
- Enchiridion (Augustine)
- Enchiridion (Epictetus)
- End of the Play, The
- Ends of the Earth, To the
- Ends Well, All's Well That
- English, Letters on the
- English Language, A Dictionary of the
- English Language, Politics and the
- English-Speaking Peoples, History of the
- English Traits
- Enlightenment of Children, The Sexual
- Enneads, The
- Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An
- Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, An
- Epidemics, Of the
- Epistles (Cicero)
- Epistles (Horace)
- Epistles (Ignatius)
- Epistulae Ex Ponto
- Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
- Epodes (Horace)
- Equilibrium of Fluids, Account of the Great Experiment Concerning the
- Equilibrium of Liquids and on the Weight of the Mass of the Air, Treatises on the
- Equilibrium of Planes, On the
- Errors, The Comedy of
- Essay Concerning Certain False Principles
- Essay on Conversation, Hints Towards an
- Essay on Criticism
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke)
- Essay on Man
- Essays (Bacon)
- Essays (Emerson)
- Essays (Montaigne)
- Essays Concerning Human Understanding, New (Leibniz)
- Essays Moral and Political Human (Hume)
- Essays in Radical Empiricism
- Essays in Sociology
- Esther Johnson (Stella), On the Death of
- Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The Protestant
- Ethics (Spinoza)
- Ethics, Eudemian
- Ethics, The Metaphysical Elements of
- Ethics, Nicomachean
- Eudemian Ethics
- Eugénie Grandet
- Eumenides, The
- Euthydemus
- Euthyphro
- Play, The End of the