Great books of the western world 60 volume set pdf
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Posted here for your convenience is the fullest free eBook list of Mortimer Adler’s Great Books of the Western World.
What makes this list more useful than the eBooks @ Adelaide list, from which the bulk of this version comes, is that several of the holes have been filled in by Project Gutenberg, and others by the Internet Archive. Links not provided by eBooks @ Adelaide are italicized. Notably, some links do not lead to eBooks, some of these even to simple Web pages. If an eBook or PDF of the appropriate work becomes available, leave a comment so this list can be updated. However, due to copyright concerns, please do not link to free eBook versions of books still under copyright in the United States.
Homer, ca.800 BC
Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC)
Sophocles (c. 496-c. 405 BC)
Euripides (480 or 484-406 BC)
Aristophanes (ca. 446 BC – 385 Bc)
Herodotus, 485–420 BC
Thucydides, ca.460 BC
Plato, c.427–c.347 BC
Aristotle, 384–322 BC
Hippocrates, 460–377 BC
Galen, 131–201
Euclid ca.300 BC
Archimedes, c. 287–212 BC
All works listed between On the Sphere and Cylinder and the Book of Lemmas may be found in
I entered the house where the Mom smiled. Her 'kiddos', Jimmy and Gina both had puppy smells except Gina's was appreciate she rolled in fresh chop grass and flowers whereas Jimmy just smelled like the inside of a shoe. Their dad, Tom, smelled liked cars, since he made his living crawling under them.
I liked Tom. He actually talked to me. Most adults just ignored me (easily done since I was in my invisible phase) or mumbled in my direction.
"See these?" he said, pointing at some books.
"You mean the books?"
"Yeah.
"Read them and the Bible if you crave wisdom."
"Really?"
"They are called the excellent books of the western planet. A man named Mortimer deposit them together and he made a Syntopicon for them."
"What's a sin-topic-con?"
"Good question.
"It's like one of those Indians you watch on your TV Westerns. It's love a guide to help you get some place.
"You see, Mortimer believes that the bedrock of our civilization are our myths and stories. The ancient Greeks and Hebrews wrote these stories down and then wrote about what the stories mean.
"People then read what they wrote and made comments. This became favor a conversation across time.
"The Syntopicon guide
Great Books of the Western World (60 Volumes)
Robert P. Gwinn
Chicago: Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1991.
Second Edition. Second Printing.
24cm x 16.5cm. 60 volumes + guide booklet. Black bonded leather, gilt lettering, gilt top edge.
Complete set of the Britannica Great Books of the Western World, being 60 volumes featuring 517 works by 130 of Western Civilization’s greatest literary, philosophical, political, religious, and scientific minds together with the two volume Syntopicon index and the saddle-stapled guide booklet. Works by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripdes, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Calvin, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Erasmus, Montaige, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Moliere, Racine, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, American State Papers, The Federalist, J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoi
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
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«Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.»
The Abbe, when asked what he would have achieved
Great Books of the Western World
Contents of the 60-Volume Set (1990 Edition)
1. The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas
2. The Syntopicon (cont.)
3. Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey
4. Aeschylus, Plays
Sophocles, Plays
Euripides, Plays
Aristophanes, Plays5. Herodotus, The History of the Persian Wars
Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War6. Plato, Dialogues, The Seventh Letter
7. Aristotle, Works
8. Aristotle, Works (cont.)
9. Hippocrates, Works
Galen, On the Natural Faculties10. Euclid, Elements
Archimedes, Works
Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic11. Lucretius, The Way Things Are
Epictetus, Discourses
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Plotinus, The Six Enneads12. Virgil, Eclogues, Georgics, The Aeneid
13. Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
14. Tacitus, The Annals, The Histories
15. Ptolemy, The Almagest
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