Great Books Of The Western World

First Edition 1952

Catalogue

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

  • RenĂ© 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

    • PensĂ©es

    • 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