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
- Education, Experience and
- Everyday Life, Psychopathology of
- Evil, Beyond Good and
- Evil, Guilt, and Power; On
- Evolution, Creative
- Evolution of Physics, The
- Ex Ponto
- Exercises, Spiritual
- Exhortation to the Study of the Arts, Especially Medicine
- Exile, In
- Exit, No
- Expectations, Great
- Experience, Art as
- Experience, Songs of
- Experience, The Varieties of Religious
- Experience and Education
- Experience and Nature
- Experiment, Observation and
- Experimental Medicine, Introduction to the Study of
- Experimental Researches in Electricity
- Experiments Concerning the Vacuum, New
- External World, Our Knowledge of the
- Eyre, Jane
- Fables (Aesop)
- Facial Treatment for Ladies, On
- Faculties, On the Natural
- Faerie Queene, The
- Fair, Vanity
- Fairy-Stories, On
- Fairy Tales (Andersen)
- Faith, The Knight of
- Faith, Skepticism and Animal
- Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, Profession of
- Fall of the House of Usher, The
- False Principles, Essay Concerning Certain
- Fang, White
- Far From the Madding Crowd
- Farewell to Arms, A
- Farm, Animal
- Fasti
- Father, Letter to his
- Fauntleroy, Little Lord
- Faust
- Faustus, Doctor
- Fear and Trembling
- Federalist Papers
- Fermat on the Theory of Probabilities, Correspondence with
- Fictions, Theory of
- Fiddle, Rothschild's
- Finnegans Wake
- Fire, To Build a
- Fire Down Below
- First Circle, The
- First Philosophy, Meditations on
- First Principles of Morals
- First Ten Books of Livy, Discourses on the
- Fistulae, On
- Five Rings, The Book of
- Flanders, Moll
- Flies, Lord of the
- Floating Bodies, On
- Floss, The Mill on the
- Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi, The Little
- Fluids, Account of the Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of
- Folly, The Praise of
- Fool, Ivan the
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Forces of Matter, The
- Fountainhead, The
- Fractures, On
- France, Reflections on the Revolution in
- France and Italy, A Sentimental Journey Through
- Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St.
- Francis Macomber, The Short Happy Life of
- Frankenstein
- Free-Thinking in Mathematics, A Defence of
- Free Will, Time and
- Freedom, Individual
- Freedom of the Christian, The
- Friendship (Plato)
- Friendship, Laelius on (Cicero)
- Frogs, The
- Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
- Furies, The
- Furioso, Orlando
- Fury, The Sound and the
- Future of an Illusion, The
- Future Prospects of Psychoanalytic Therapy, The
- Macomber, The Short Happy Life of Francis