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
- Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1405-1471)
- St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
- Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
- Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
- Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)
- Sir Thomas More (c. 1478-1535)
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
- François Rabelais (c. 1495-1553)
- John Calvin (1509-1564)
- St. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582)
- Sir Thomas Hoby (1530-1566)
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
- St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)
- William Gilbert (1544-1603)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
- (The Book of Common Prayer) (1549)
- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
- Richard Hooker (c. 1553-1600)
- Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609)
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
- John Donne (1572-1631)
- William Harvey (1578-1657)
- Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645)
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
- Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
- René Descartes (1596-1650)
