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The Greatest Writings in Western History

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From the ancient classics to recent masterpieces, the Great Books of the Western World is the ultimate introduction to the ideas, stories, and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. Authoritative and accurate, this collection represents the essential core of the Western literary canon, compiling 517 of the most significant achievements in literature, history, philosophy, and science. The Great Books from Encyclopædia Britannica can be accessed by subscription or in perpetuity through Ingram Digital's industry-leading MyiLibrary e-content aggregation platform.

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The ideas, writings, and accomplishments of 130 authors in one amazing collection. All of the text of the set is searchable.

T H E SY NT O P I C O N Use the Syntopicon to investigate a particular idea, such as courage or democracy, and compare what different authors have to say about it. Hypertext links connect the Syntopicon entries and the places in the books they refer to. © 2009 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Great Books of the Western World

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The Greatest Writings in Western History

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The Syntopicon

Aquinas I (c. 1225 – 1724)

Locke (1632 – 1704) Berkeley (1685 – 1763) Hume (1711 – 1776)

Jane Austen (1775-1817) George Eliot (1819-1880)

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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Homer

Aquinas II

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Aeschylus (C. 525-456 BC) Sophocles (C. 495-406 BC) Euripides (C. 480-406 BC) Aristophanes (C. 455-380 BC)

Dante (1265 – 1321) Chaucer (C. 1340 – 1400)

Swift (1667 – 1745) Voltaire (1694 – 1778) Diderot (1713 – 1784)

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Calvin (1509 – 1564)

Montesquieu (1689 – 1755) Rousseau (1712 – 1778)

VO LU ME 5 Herodotus (C. 484-425 BC) Thucydides (C. 460-400 BC)

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Adam Smith (1723 – 1790)

Karl Marx (1818-1883) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

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Rabelais (C.1495 – 1553)

Gibbon I (1737 – 1794)

Aristotle I (C. 384-322 BC)

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Erasmus (C.1467 – C. 1536) Montaigne (1533 – 1592)

Gibbon II

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Shakespeare I (1564 – 1616)

Hippocrates (FL. 400 BC) Galen (C. AD 130-200)

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VO LU M E 12 Virgil (70-19 BC)

VO LU M E 26 Gilbert (1540 – 1603) Galilei (1564 – 1642) Harvey (1578 – 1657)

VO LU M E 53 William James (1842-1910)

VO LU M E 54 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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James Boswell (1740-1795)

20th Century Philosophy and Religion

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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

20th Century Science

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20th Century Social Science I

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

20th Century Social Science II

Bacon (1561 – 1626) Descartes (1596 – 1650) Spinoza (1632 – 1677)

VO LU M E 29 Milton (1608 – 1674)

VO LU M E 14 Tacitus (C. 55-C. 117)

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) James Madison (1751-1836) John Jay (1745-1829) John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

Cervantes (1547 – 1616)

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Kant (1724 – 1804)

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)

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Lucretius (C. 98-C. 55 BC) Epictetus (C. 60-C. 138 AD) Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) Plotinus (205-270 AD)

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

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Aristotle II (C. 384-322 BC)

Euclid (FL. C. 300 BC) Archimedes (C. 287-212 BC)

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VO LU M E 21 Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) Hobbes (1588 – 1679)

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VO LU M E 48 Herman Melville (1819-1891) Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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Pascal (1623 – 1662)

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Ptolemy (C. 100-C. 178) Copernicus (1473–1543) Kepler (1571-1630)

Moliere (1622 – 1673) Racine (1639 – 1699)

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Augustine (354-430)

Newton (1642 – 1727) Huygens (1629 – 1695)

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Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859)

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20th Century Imaginative Literature II

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) Honore De Balzac (1799-1850)