Great Books of the Western World
Works
Considered part of the collection, though not printed:
- Holy Bible (it was assumed that nearly all households already have one)
Volumes in the collection (1st edition):
- Vol. 1 - The Great Conversation
- Vol. 2 - Syntopicon I
- Vol. 3 - Syntopicon II
- Vol. 4 - Homer
- Vol. 5 - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
- Vol. 6 - Herodotus, Thucydides
- Vol. 7 - Plato
- Vols. 8-9 - Aristotle
- Vol. 10 - Hippocrates, Galen
- Vol. 11 - Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga, Nicomachus of Gerasa
- Vol. 12 - Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
- Vol. 13 - Virgil
- Vol. 14 - Plutarch
- Vol. 15 - P. Cornelius Tacitus
- Vol. 16 - Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler
- Vol. 17 - Plotinus
- Vol. 18 - Augustine of Hippo
- Vols. 19-20 - Thomas Aquinas
- Vol. 21 - Dante Alighieri
- Vol. 22 - Geoffrey Chaucer
- Vol. 23 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes
- Vol. 24 - François Rabelais
- Vol. 25 - Michel de Montaigne
- Vols. 26-27 - William Shakespeare
- Vol. 28 - William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey
- Vol. 29 - Miguel de Cervantes
- Vol. 30 - Sir Francis Bacon
- Vol. 31 - René Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza
- Vol. 32 - John Milton
- Vol. 33 - Blaise Pascal
- Vol. 34 - Sir Isaac Newton, Christian Huygens
- Vol. 35 - John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume
- Vol. 36 - Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne
- Vol. 37 - Henry Fielding
- Vol. 38 - Baron de Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Vol. 39 - Adam Smith
Volumes in the collection (1st edition, cont.):
- Vols. 40-41 - Edward Gibbon
- Vol. 42 - Immanuel Kant
- Vol. 43 - American State Papers, The Federalist, John Stuart Mill
- Vol. 44 - James Boswell
- Vol. 45 - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Michael Faraday
- Vol. 46 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Vol. 47 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Vol. 48 - Herman Melville
- Vol. 49 - Charles Darwin
- Vol. 50 - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
- Vol. 51 - Count Leo Tolstoy
- Vol. 52 - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- Vol. 53 - William James
- Vol. 54 - Sigmund Freud
Added in the second edition:
- Vol. 20 - John Calvin
- Vol. 23 - Desiderius Erasmus
- Vol. 31 - Molière, Jean-Baptiste Racine
- Vol. 34 - Voltaire, Denis Diderot
- Vol. 43 - Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Vol. 44 - Alexis de Tocqueville
- Vol. 45 - Honoré de Balzac
- Vol. 46 - Jane Austen, George Eliot
- Vol. 47 - Charles Dickens
- Vol. 48 - Mark Twain
- Vol. 52 - Henrik Ibsen
- Vol. 55 - William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Barth
- Vol. 56 - Henri Poincaré, Max Planck, Alfred North Whitehead, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, Niels Bohr, G. H. Hardy, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Theodosius Dobzhansky, C. H. Waddington
- Vol. 57 - Thorstein Veblen, R. H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes
- Vol. 58 - Sir James George Frazer, Max Weber, Johan Huizinga, Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Vol. 59 - Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, James Joyce
- Vol. 60 - Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett
- Mabinogion, The
- Macbeth
- Madame Bovary
- Madding Crowd, Far From the
- Magic Mountian, The
- Magna Carta
- Magnete, De
- Magnetic Bodies, On the Loadstone and
- Mahabharata, The
- Maidens, The Suppliant
- Maior de Senectute, Cato
- Major Barbara
- Malta, The Jew of
- Man, Arms and the
- Man, The Descent of
- Man, The Dignity of
- Man, Essay on
- Man, The Last
- Man, The Rights of
- Man and the Lower Animals, The Moral Sense of
- Man and Superman
- Manfred
- Manifesto, The Communist
- Mannering, Guy
- Manners and Good Breeding, Treatise on Good
- Manuscripts, Economic and Philosophical
- Market Street, The Spinoza of
- Marner, Silas
- Masque of the Red Death, The
- Mass of the Air, Treatises on the Equilibrium of Liquids and on the Weight of the
- Master Builder, The
- Mathematical Philosophy, Introduction to
- Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
- Mathematics, A Defence of Free-Thinking in
- Mathematics, An Introduction to
- Matter, The Forces of
- Matter; Intellect: Mind Over
- Matter and Memory
- Mayflower Compact
- Mayor of Casterbridge, The
- Me, The Social
- Meaning of Relativity, The
- Meaning and Truth, An Inquiry into
- Means, Ways and
- Measure For Measure
- Measurement of the Circle, On the
- Mechanical Problems, On the Method of
- Medea
- Medici, Religio
- Medicine; Exhortation to the Study of the Arts, Especially
- Medicine, Introduction to the Study of Experimental
- Meditations on First Philosophy
- Meditations and Replies, Objections Against the
- Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- Memoirs of my Life and Writings (Gibbon)
- Memorabilia
- Memory, Matter and
- Memory and Reminiscence, On
- Men, Little
- Men Live By, What
- Men, Representative
- Meno
- Menoeceus, Letter to
- Merchant of Venice, The
- Mere Christianity (1952)
- Merry Wives of Windsor, The
- Messenger, The Starry
- Metamorphoses (Ovid)
- Metamorphosis, The (Kafka)
- Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, The
- Metaphysics
- Metaphysics, Discourse on
- Metaphysics, Introduction to
- Metaphysics of Morals, Fundamental Principles of the
- Metaphysics of Morals, Introduction to the
- Meteorology
- Method, Discourse on
- Method, Science and
- Method of Mechanical Problems, On the
- Method of Theoretical Physics, On the
