| Description |
61 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Spine title: Great books. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
[v]. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas. Bibliography of additional readings. Inventory of terms -- [v]. 3. Iliad ; Odyssey Homer -- [v]. 4. Suppliant maidens ; Persians ; Seven against Thebes ; Prometheus bound ; Agamemnon ; Libation bearers ; Eumenides / Aeschylus -- Oedipus the King ; Oedipus at Colonus ; Antigone ; Ajax ; Electra ; Women of Trachis ; Philoctetes / Sophocles -- Rhesus ; Medea ; Hippolytus ; Alcestis ; Heracleidae ; Suppliant women ; Trojan women ; Ion ; Helen ; Andromache ; Electra ; Bacchae ; Hecuba ; Heracles ; Phoenician women ; Orestes ; Iphigenia in Taurus ; Iphigenia in Aulis ; Cycops / Euripides -- Acharnians ; Knights ; Clouds ; Wasps ; Peace ; Birds ; Frogs ; Lysistrata ; Poet and the women ; Assemblywomen ; Wealth / Aristophanes -- [v]. 5. History / Herodotus. History of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- [v]. 6. Charmides ; Lysis ; Laches ; Protagoras ; Euthydemus ; Cratylus ; Phaedrus ; Ion ; Symposium ; Meno ; Euthyphro ; Appology ; Crito ; Phaedo ; Gorgias ; Republic ; Timaeus ; Critias ; Parmenides ; Theaetetus ; Sophist ; Statesman ; Philebus ; Laws ; Seventh letter / Plato -- [v]. 7-8. Categories ; On interpretation ; Prior analytics ; posterior analytics ; Topics ; On sophistical refutations ; Physics ; On the heavens ; On generation and corruption ; Meteorology ; Metaphysics ; On the soul ; On sense and the sensible ; On memory and reminiscence ; On sleep and sleeplessness ; On dreams ; On prophesying by dreams ; On longevity and shortness of life ; On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing ; History of animals ; On the parts of animals ; On the motion of animals ; On the gait of animals ; On the generation of animals ; Nicomachean ethics ; Politics ; Athenian constitution ; Rhetoric ; On poetics / Aristotle -- [v]. 9. Oath ; On ancient medicine ; On airs, waters, and places ; Book of prognostics ; On regimen in acute diseases ; Of the epidemics ; On injuries of the head ; On the surgery ; On fractures ; On the articulations ; Instruments of reduction ; Aphorisms ; Law ; On ulcers ; On fistulae ; On hemorrhoids ; On the sacred disease / Hippocrates -- On the natural faculties / Galen -- [v]. 10. Elements / Euclid ; On the sphere and cylinder ; Measurement of a circle ; On conoids and spheroids ; On spirals ; On the equilibrium of planes ; Sand reckoner ; Quadrature of the parabola ; On floating bodies ; Book of lemmas ; Method treating of mechanical problems / Archimedes -- Introduction to arithmetic / Nichomachus -- [v]. 11. Way things are / Lucretius -- The Discourses of Epictetus / Epictetus -- Meditations / Marcus Aurelius -- Six Enneads / Plotinus -- [v]. 12. Eclogues ; Georgics ; Aeneid / Virgil -- [v]. 13. Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans / Plutarch -- [v]. 14. Tacitus -- [v]. 15. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler -- [v]. 16. Augustine -- [v]. 17-18. Aquinas -- [v]. 19. Dante. Chaucer -- [v]. 20. Calvin -- [v]. 21. Machiavelli. Hobbes -- [v]. 22. Rabelais -- [v]. 23. Erasmus. Montaigne -- [v]. 24-25. Shakespeare -- [v]. 26. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey -- [v]. 27. Cervantes -- [v]. 28. Bacon. Descartes. Spinoza -- [v]. 29. Milton -- [v]. 30. Pascal -- |
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[v]. 31. Moliere. Racine -- [v]. 32. Newton. Huygens -- [v]. 33. Locke. Berkeley. Hume -- [v]. 34. Swift. Voltaire. Diderot -- [v]. 35. Montesquieu. Rousseau -- [v]. 36. Adam Smith -- [v]. 37-38. Gibbon -- [v]. 39. Kant -- [v]. 40. American State Papers. The Federalist. J.S. Mill -- [v]. 41. Boswell -- [v]. 42. Lavoisier. Faraday -- [v]. 43. Hegel. Kierkegaard. Nietzsche -- [v]. 44. Tocqueville -- [v]. 45. Goethe. Balzac -- [v]. 46. Austen. George Eliot -- [v]. 47. Dickens -- [v]. 48. Melville. Twain -- [v]. 49. Darwin -- [v]. 50. Marx. Engels -- [v]. 51. Tolstoy -- [v]. 52. Dostoevsky. Ibsen -- [v]. 53. William James -- [v]. 54. Freud -- [v]. 55. William James. Bergson. Dewey. Whitehead. Russell. Heidegger. Wittgenstein. Barth -- [v]. 56. Poincare. Planck. Whitehead. Einstein. Eddington. Bohr. Hardy. Heisenberg. Schrodinger. Dobzhansky. Waddington -- [v]. 57. Veblen. Tawney. Keynes -- [v]. 58. Frazer. Weber. Huizinga. Levi-Strauss -- [v]. 59. Beast in the jungle / Henry James. Saint Joan / Bernard Shaw. Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad. Uncle Vania / Anton Chekhov. Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello. Swann in love / Marcel Proust. Lost Lady / Willa Cather. Death in Venice / Thomas Mann. Portrait of an artist as a young man / James Joyce -- [v]. 60. To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf. Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka. Prussian officer / D.H. Lawrence. Waste land / T.S. Eliot. Mourning becomes Electra / Eugene O'Neill. Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald. Rose for Emily / William Faulkner. Mother Courage and her children / Bertolot Brecht. Short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway. Animal Farm / George Orwell. Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- [v. 61]. The great conversation : a reader's guide to Great books of the Western world. |
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Anthologies.
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Literature -- Collections.
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Literature -- Indexes.
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Best books.
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Best books -- Guidebooks.
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Best books -- Indexes.
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Guidebooks.
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Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001.
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Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
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Goetz, Philip W.
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Homer.
Iliad.
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Homer.
Odyssey.
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Aeschylus.
Suppliants.
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Aeschylus.
Persae.
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Aeschylus.
Seven against Thebes.
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Aeschylus.
Prometheus bound.
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Aeschylus.
Agamemnon.
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Aeschylus.
Eumenides.
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Sophocles.
Oedipus Rex.
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Sophocles.
Oedipus at Colonus.
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Sophocles.
Antigone.
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Sophocles.
Ajax.
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Sophocles.
Electra.
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Sophocles.
Trachiniae.
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Sophocles.
Philoctetes.
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Euripides.
Medea.
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Euripides.
Hippolytus.
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Euripides.
Alcestis.
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Euripides.
Heracles.
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Euripides.
Supplices. English.
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Euripides.
Trojan women. English.
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Euripides.
Ion.
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Euripides.
Helen.
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Euripides.
Andromache. English.
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Euripides.
Electra. English.
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Euripides.
Bacchae. English.
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Euripides.
Hecuba.
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Euripides.
Phoenician women.
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Euripides.
Orestes.
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Euripides.
Iphigenia in Tauris.
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Euripides.
Iphigenia in Aulis.
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Euripides.
Cyclops.
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Aristophanes.
Acharnians.
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Aristophanes.
Knights.
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Aristophanes.
Clouds.
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Aristophanes.
Wasps.
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Aristophanes.
Peace.
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Aristophanes.
Birds.
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Aristophanes.
Frogs.
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Aristophanes.
Lysistrata.
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Herodotus.
History.
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Thucydides.
History of the Peloponnesian War.
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Plato.
Charmides.
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Plato.
Lysis.
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Plato.
Laches.
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Plato.
Protagoras.
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Plato.
Euthydemus.
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Plato.
Cratylus.
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Plato.
Phaedrus.
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Plato.
Ion.
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Plato.
Symposium.
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Plato.
Meno.
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Plato.
Euthyphro.
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Plato.
Apology.
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Plato.
Crito.
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Plato.
Phaedo.
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Plato.
Gorgias.
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Plato.
Republic.
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Plato.
Timaeus.
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Plato.
Critias.
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Plato.
Parmenides.
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Plato.
Theaetetus.
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Plato.
Sophist.
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Plato.
Statesman.
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Plato.
Philebus.
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Plato.
Laws.
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Aristotle.
Categoriae. English.
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Aristotle.
De interpretatione. English.
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Aristotle.
Prior analytics.
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Aristotle.
Posterior analytics.
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Aristotle.
Topics.
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Aristotle.
Physics.
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Aristotle.
De caelo.
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Aristotle.
De generatione et corruptione. English.
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Aristotle.
Metaphysics.
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Aristotle.
De anima.
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Aristotle.
De sensu et sensibilibus. English.
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Aristotle.
De memoria et reminiscentia. English.
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Aristotle.
De somno et vigilia.
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Aristotle.
De somniis.
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Aristotle.
Historia animalium.
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Aristotle.
De partibus animalium.
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Aristotle.
De motu animalium.
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Aristotle.
De incessu animalium. English.
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Aristotle.
Nicomachean ethics.
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Aristotle.
Politics.
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Aristotle.
Athēnaiōn politeia.
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Aristotle.
Rhetoric.
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Epictetus.
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Aristotle.
Poetics.
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Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180.
Meditations. English.
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Plutarch.
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Hippocrates.
Hippocratic oath.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc.
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Rhesus.
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Great books.
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The great conversation : a reader's guide to Great books of the Western world.
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The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas.
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| ISBN |
0852295316 (set) |
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