THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST EDITION OF GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD

Based on Wikipedia

Volume 1

The Great Conversation; The Substance of a Liberal Education

Volume 2

The Great Ideas; A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World Vol.I

Volume 3

The Great Ideas; A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World Vol.II

Volume 4

The Iliad of Homer and The Odyssey.

• • The Iliad, rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler

  • The Odyssey, rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler

Volume 5

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes

• The Plays of Aeschylus Translated into English verse by G.M.Cookson

  • The Suppliant Maidens

  • The Persians

  • Seven Against Thebes

  • Prometheus Bound

  • The Oresteia

  • Agamemnon

  • Choephoroe

  • The Eumenides

• The Plays of Sophocles Translated into English prose by R.C.Jebb

  • The Oedipus Cycle

  • Oedipus the King

  • Oedipus at Colonus

  • Antigone

  • Ajax

  • Electra

  • The Trachiniae

  • Philoctetes

• The Plays of Euripides Translated into English prose by E.P.Coleridge

  • Rhesus

  • Medea

  • Hippolytus

  • Alcestis

  • Heracleidae

  • The Suppliants

  • The Trojan Women

  • Ion

  • Helen

  • Andromache

  • Electra

  • Bacchantes

  • Hecuba

  • Heracles Mad

  • The Phoenician Women

  • Orestes

  • Iphigenia in Tauris

  • Iphigenia in Aulis

  • Cyclops

• The Plays of Aristophanes Translated into English verse by B.B.Rogers

  • The Acharnians

  • The Knights

  • The Clouds

  • The Wasps

  • Peace

  • The Birds

  • The Frogs

  • Lysistrata

  • Thesmophoriazusae

  • Ecclesiazousae

  • Plutus

Volume 6

Herodotus, Thucydides

• The History of Herodotus Translated by G.Rawlinson

• The History of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Translated by R.Crawley Revised by R.Feetham

Volume 7

Plato

• The Dialogues of Plato Translated by B.Jowett

  • Charmides

  • Lysis

  • Laches

  • Protagoras

  • Euthydemus

  • Cratylus

  • Phaedrus

  • Ion

  • Symposium

  • Meno

  • Euthyphro

  • Apology

  • Crito

  • Phaedo

  • Gorgias

  • The Republic

  • Timaeus

  • Critias

  • Parmenides

  • Theaetetus

  • Sophist

  • Statesman

  • Philebus

  • Laws

• The Seventh Letter Translated by J.Harward

Volume 8

Aristotle I

• The Works of Aristotle Volume I

  • Categories

  • On Interpretation

  • Prior Analytics

  • Posterior Analytics

  • Topics

  • Sophistical Refutations

  • Physics

  • On the Heavens

  • On Generation and Corruption

  • Meteorology

  • Metaphysics

  • On the Soul

  • Minor biological works

Volume 9

Aristotle II

• The Works of Aristotle Volume II

  • History of Animals

  • Parts of Animals

  • On the Motion of Animals

  • On the Gait of Animals

  • On the Generation of Animals

  • Nicomachean Ethics

  • Politics

  • The Athenian Constitution

  • Rhetoric

  • Poetics

Volume 10

Hippocrates, Galen

• Hippocrates Writings

• On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Volume 11

Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius Of Perga, Nicomachus

• The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements

• Archimedes

  • On the Sphere and Cylinder

  • Measurement of a Circle

  • On Conoids and Spheroids

  • On Spirals

  • On the Equilibrium of Planes

  • The Sand Reckoner

  • The Quadrature of the Parabola

  • On Floating Bodies

  • Book of Lemmas

  • The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems

• Apollonius of Perga

  • On Conic Sections

• Nicomachus of Gerasa

  • Introduction to Arithmetic

Volume 12

• Lucretius

  • On the Nature of Things (translated by H.A.J. Munro)

• Epictetus

  • The Discourses (translated by George Long)

• Marcus Aurelius

  • The Meditations (translated by George Long)

Volume 13

• Virgil (translated into English verse by James Rhoades)

  • Eclogues

  • Georgics

  • Aeneid

Volume 14

• Plutarch

  • The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (translated by John Dryden)

Volume 15

• P. Cornelius Tacitus (translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb)

  • The Annals

  • The Histories

Volume 16

• Ptolemy

  • Almagest, (translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro)

• Nicolaus Copernicus

  • On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)

• Johannes Kepler (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)

  • Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV–V)

  • The Harmonies of the World (Book V)

Volume 17

• Plotinus

  • The Six Enneads (translated by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page)

Volume 18

• Augustine of Hippo

  • The Confessions

  • The City of God

  • On Christian Doctrine

Volume 19

• Thomas Aquinas

  • Summa Theologica (First part complete, selections from second part, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)

Volume 20

• Thomas Aquinas

  • Summa Theologica (Selections from second and third parts and supplement, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)

Volume 21

• Dante Alighieri

  • Divine Comedy (Translated by Charles Eliot Norton)

Volume 22

• Geoffrey Chaucer

  • Troilus and Criseyde

  • The Canterbury Tales

Volume 23

• Niccolò Machiavelli

  • The Prince

• Thomas Hobbes

  • Leviathan

Volume 24

• François Rabelais

  • Gargantua and Pantagruel

Volume 25

• Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

  • Essays

Volume 26

• William Shakespeare

  • The First Part of King Henry the Sixth

  • The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth

  • The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth

  • The Tragedy of Richard the Third

  • The Comedy of Errors

  • Titus Andronicus

  • The Taming of the Shrew

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona

  • Love's Labour's Lost

  • Romeo and Juliet

  • The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • The Life and Death of King John

  • The Merchant of Venice

  • The First Part of King Henry the Fourth

  • The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth

  • Much Ado About Nothing

  • The Life of King Henry the Fifth

  • Julius Caesar

  • As You Like It

Volume 27

• William Shakespeare

  • Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

  • The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

  • The Merry Wives of Windsor

  • Troilus and Cressida

  • All's Well That Ends Well

  • Measure for Measure

  • Othello, the Moor of Venice

  • King Lear

  • Macbeth

  • Antony and Cleopatra

  • Coriolanus

  • Timon of Athens

  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre

  • Cymbeline

  • The Winter's Tale

  • The Tempest

  • The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth

  • Sonnets

Volume 28

• William Gilbert

  • On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies

• Galileo Galilei

  • Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences

• William Harvey

  • On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

  • On the Circulation of Blood

  • On the Generation of Animals

Volume 29

• Miguel de Cervantes

  • The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Volume 30

• Sir Francis Bacon

  • The Advancement of Learning

  • Novum Organum

  • New Atlantis

Volume 31

• René Descartes

  • Rules for the Direction of the Mind

  • Discourse on the Method

  • Meditations on First Philosophy

  • Objections Against the Meditations and Replies

  • The Geometry

• Benedict de Spinoza

  • Ethics

Volume 32

• John Milton

  • English Minor Poems

  • Paradise Lost

  • Samson Agonistes

  • Areopagitica

Volume 33

• Blaise Pascal

  • The Provincial Letters

  • Pensées

  • Scientific and mathematical essays

Volume 34

• Sir Isaac Newton

  • Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

  • Optics

• Christian Huygens

  • Treatise on Light

Volume 35

• John Locke

  • A Letter Concerning Toleration

  • Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay

  • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

• George Berkeley

  • The Principles of Human Knowledge

• David Hume

  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Volume 36

• Jonathan Swift

  • Gulliver's Travels

• Laurence Sterne

  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Volume 37

• Henry Fielding

  • The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Volume 38

• Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

  • The Spirit of the Laws

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

  • A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

  • A Discourse on Political Economy

  • The Social Contract

Volume 39

• Adam Smith

  • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Volume 40

• Edward Gibbon

  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 1)

Volume 41

• Edward Gibbon

  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 2)

Volume 42

• Immanuel Kant

  • Critique of Pure Reason

  • Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

  • Critique of Practical Reason

  • Excerpts from The Metaphysics of Morals

  • Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics with a note on Conscience

  • General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals

  • The Science of Right

  • The Critique of Judgement

Volume 43

• American State Papers

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Articles of Confederation

  • The Constitution of the United States of America

• Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay

  • The Federalist

• John Stuart Mill

  • On Liberty

  • Considerations on Representative Government

  • Utilitarianism

Volume 44

• James Boswell

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Volume 45

• Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

  • Elements of Chemistry

• Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

  • Analytical Theory of Heat

• Michael Faraday

  • Experimental Researches in Electricity

Volume 46

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  • The Philosophy of Right

  • The Philosophy of History

Volume 47

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Faust

Volume 48

• Herman Melville

  • Moby Dick; or, The Whale

Volume 49

• Charles Darwin

  • The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

  • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Volume 50

• Karl Marx

  • Capital

• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

  • Manifesto of the Communist Party

Volume 51

• Count Leo Tolstoy

  • War and Peace

Volume 52

• Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

  • The Brothers Karamazov

Volume 53

• William James

  • The Principles of Psychology

Volume 54

• Sigmund Freud

  • The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis

  • Selected Papers on Hysteria

  • The Sexual Enlightenment of Children

  • The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy

  • Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis

  • The Interpretation of Dreams

  • On Narcissism

  • Instincts and Their Vicissitudes

  • Repression

  • The Unconscious

  • A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis

  • Beyond the Pleasure Principle

  • Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

  • The Ego and the Id

  • Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety

  • Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

  • Civilization and Its Discontents

  • New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis