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
- I and Thou
- "I Have a Dream"
- Ibis
- Id, The Ego and the
- Ideas, Adventures of
- Ideas; Six Great
- Identity, Of Personal
- Idiot, The
- Idols, Twilight of the
- Idomeneus, Letter to
- Iliad
- Illusion, The Future of an
- Ilych, The Death of Ivan
- Imaginary Invalid, The
- Imitation of Christ, On the
- Immortality, Ode on Intimations of
- Importance, A Woman of No
- Importance of Being Earnest, The
- Impostor, The
- Impressions, Winter Notes on Summer
- Inaugural Address, 1st (Lincoln)
- Inaugural Address, 2nd (Lincoln)
- Incarnation, On the
- Independence, Declaration of
- Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature, The
- Individual Freedom
- Inequality, On the Origin of
- Inferno
- Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
- Injuries of the Head, On
- Inner Nature, The Indestructibility of Our
- Innocence, Songs of
- Innocents Abroad
- Inquiry; Logic, the Theory of
- Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An
- Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, An
- Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, An
- Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
- Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Instruments of Reduction
- Intellect: Mind Over Matter
- Intercourse, Truth of
- Interior Castle
- Interpretation, On
- Interpretation of Dreams, The
- Intimations of Immortality, Ode on
- Introduction to Arithmetic
- Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
- Introduction to Mathematics, An
- Introduction to Metaphysics
- Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals
- Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
- Introduction to the Propyläen
- Introduction to Psychoanalysis, A General
- Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
- Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
- Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, New
- Invisible Man, The
- Invalid, The Imaginary
- Ion (Euripides)
- Ion (Plato)
- Iphigenia Among the Taurians
- Iphigenia at Aulis
- Island, Treasure
- Island of Doctor Moreau, The
- Isthmian Odes
- Italy, A Sentimental Journey Through France and
- Ivan Denisovich, One Day in the Life of
- Ivan the Fool
- Ivan Ilych, The Death of
- Ivanhoe
- Ode on Intimations of Immortality
- Personal Identity, Of
