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
- (Old Testament) (c. 1400?-300? BC)
- Homer (fl.c. 850? BC)
- Confucius (c. 551-479 BC)
- Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BC)
- Sophocles (c. 495-406 BC)
- Euripides (c. 485-406 BC)
- Herodotus (c. 484-425 BC)
- Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC)
- Hippocrates (c. 460-377? BC)
- Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC)
- Plato (c. 427-347 BC)
- (Bhagavad-Gita) (c. 400 BC)
- Aristotle (c. 384-322 BC)
- Epicurus (c. 341-270 BC)
- Aesop (fl.c. 300 BC)
- Euclid (fl.c. 300 BC)
- Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
- Apollonius of Perga (fl.c. 240 BC)
- Cicero (106-43 BC)
- Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99-55 BC)
- Virgil (70-19 BC)
- Horace (65-8 BC)
- Livy (59 BC-AD 17)
- Ovid (43 BC-AD 17)
- Plutarch (c. 45-120)
- (New Testament) (c. 45?-95?)
- Tacitus (c. 55-117)
- Epictetus (c. 60-120)
- Nicomachus of Gerasa (c. 60?-120?)
- Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100-178)
- Lucian (c. 115-180)
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
- Galen (129 - c. 210)
- Plotinus (205-270)
- St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
- (The Qur'an) (c. 632)
- (Beowulf) (c. 725)
- (Tales from the 1001 Nights) (c. 850?)
- (The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel) (c. 900?; mss. c. 1100)
