Great Books of the Western World
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.):
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
- Naturalia, Parva
- Pantagruel, Gargantua and
- Papers, Pickwick
- Papers on Hysteria, Selected
- Parabola, On the Quadrature of the
- Paradise Lost
- Paradise Regained
- Paradiso
- Paris, Notre Dame de
- Parma, The Charterhouse of
- Parmenides
- Parts of Animals, On the
- Parva Naturalia
- Passage, Rites of
- Passionate Pilgrim, The
- Past, Remembrance of Things
- Pauper, The Prince and the
- Peace (Aristophanes)
- Peace, Perpetual
- Peace, War and
- Pearl, The
- Peer Gynt
- Peloponnesian War, History of the
- Pendulum, The Pit and the
- Pensees
- Pepys, Samuel
- Perception of Change, The
- Père Goriot
- Perfection, The Way of
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- Perpetual Peace
- Perplexed, Guide of the
- Persian Letters
- Persian War, History of the
- Persians, The
- Persons and Places
- Persuasion
- Pessimism, Studies in
- Peter Pan
- Phaedo (Plato)
- Phèdre (Racine)
- Phaedrus (Plato)
- Phenomenology of Mind
- Philebus
- Philoctetes
- Philosophical Dictionary
- Philosophical Manuscripts, Economic and
- Philosophical Mistakes; Ten
- Philosophy, Introduction to Mathematical
- Philosophy, Mathematical Principles of Natural
- Philosophy, Meditations on First
- Philosophy, The Positive
- Philosophy, The Problems of
- Philosophy of History, Lectures on the
- Philosophy of Money
- Philosophy of Right
- Phoenician Women, The
- Phoenix and the Turtle, The
- Physician in Spite of Himself, The
- Physics
- Physics, The Evolution of
- Physics, On the Method of Theoretical
- Pickwick Papers
- Picture of Dorian Gray, The
- Pilgrim, The Passionate
- Pilgrim's Progress
- Pimpernel, The Scarlet
- Pinocchio, The Adventures of
- Pit and the Pendulum, The
- Places; On Airs, Waters, and
- Places, Persons and
- Plague, The
- Planes, On the Equilibrium of
- Plays of William Shakespeare, The (Johnson)
- Pleasure Principle, Beyond the
- Plutus
- Poems (Blake)
- Poems (E. Brontë)
- Poems (E.B. Browning)
- Poems (Byron)
- Poems (Coleridge)
- Poems (Dickinson)
- Poems (Donne)
- Poems (T.S. Eliot)
- Poems (Emerson)
- Poems (Frost)
- Poems (Johnson)
- Poems (Keats)
- Poems (Longfellow)
- Poems (Milton)
- Poems (Poe)
- Poems (Pope)
- Poems (Scott)
- Poems (Shelley)
- Poems (Tennyson)
- Poems (Wordsworth)
- Poems (Yeats)
- Poesy or Art, On
- Poet, A Letter of Advice to a Young
- Poetic Principle, The
- Poetica, Ars
- Poetics
- Poetry, The Art of
- Poetry, A Defence of
- Poetry and Truth
- Poets, The Lives of the
- Political, Essays Moral and
- Political Economy, On
- Politics
- Politics and the English Language
- Polity, The Laws of Ecclesiastical
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
- Portrait of a Lady
- Portuguese, Sonnets from the
- Positive Philosophy, The
- Possessed, The
- Posterior Analytics
- Power; On Evil, Guilt, and
- Power, The Will to