Great Books of the Western World
Works
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.):
- Vols. 40-41 - Edward Gibbon
- Vol. 42 - Immanuel Kant
- Vol. 43 - American State Papers, The Federalist, John Stuart Mill
- Vol. 44 - James Boswell
- Vol. 45 - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Michael Faraday
- Vol. 46 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Vol. 47 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Vol. 48 - Herman Melville
- Vol. 49 - Charles Darwin
- Vol. 50 - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
- Vol. 51 - Count Leo Tolstoy
- Vol. 52 - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- Vol. 53 - William James
- Vol. 54 - Sigmund Freud
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
- Abelard and Heloise; Letters of
- Abolishing Christianity; An Argument Against
- Abolition of Man, The (1943)
- Abroad; Innocents
- Absalom, Absalom!
- Abyssinia; The Prince of
- Account of the Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids
- Acharnians; The
- Acute Diseases, On Regimen in
- Adam Bede
- Adams, The Education of Henry
- Address to the Christian Nobility
- Ado About Nothing, Much
- Adonis, Venus and
- Advancement of Learning
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
- Adventures of Ideas
- Adventures of Pinocchio, The
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
- Advice to a Young Poet, A Letter of
- Aeneid, The
- Affections, Treatise Concerning Religious
- African War, The
- After the Ball
- Against Apion
- Agamemnon
- Agesilaus
- Agnes Grey
- Agonistes, Samson
- Agricola
- Aids to Reflection
- Aims of Education and Other Essays, The
- Air, Treatises on the Equilibrium of Liquids and on the Weight of the Mass of the
- Airs, Waters, and Places; On
- Ajax
- Alcestis
- Alexandrian War, The
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Alienated Labor
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Almagest
- Amatoria, Ars
- Ambassadors, The
- America, Democracy in
- American, The
- American Scene, The
- American Tragedy, An
- Amerika
- Amicitia, Laelius de
- Among School Children
- Amontillado, The Cask of
- Amores
- Amoris, Remedia
- Anabasis
- Analects (Confucius)
- Analysis of the Ego, Group Psychology and the
- Analysis of Mind, The
- Analytical Theory of Heat
- Analytics, Posterior
- Analytics, Prior
- Ancient Mariner, Rime of the
- Ancient Medicine, On
- Andrews, Joseph
- Andromache (Euripides)
- Andromache (Racine)
- Andronicus, Titus
- Angler, The Compleat
- Animal Faith, Skepticism and
- Animal Farm
- Animals, On the Gait of
- Animals, On the Generation of (Aristotle)
- Animals, On the Generation of (Harvey)
- Animals, The History of
- Animals, On the Motion of
- Animals, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in
- Animals, On the Parts of
- Anna Karenina
- Annals (Tacitus)
- Anthem
- Anti-Federalist Papers
- Antigone
- Antiquities of the Jews
- Antony, Life of
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Anxiety; Inhibitions, Symptoms, and
- Aphorisms (Hippocrates)
- Apion, Against
- Apprenticeship, Wilhelm Meister's
- Apology (Plato)
- Apology (Tertullian)
- Apology (Xenophon)
