Great Books of the Western World (60 volume, 1990) - Encyclopaedia Britannica - LIBROS EN INGLÉS

Colección de 60 tomos que incluyen centenares de libros que representan el compendio de las obras y los autores más representativos de la literatura y el saber universal. Incluye las obras de referencia más influyentes de la literatura, la historia, la poesía, las ciencias, las matemáticas, la filosofía, el teatro, la política, la religión, la economía y la ética. La idea original fue promovida en los años 50 por la Universidad de Chicago y el editor es la Enciclopedia Britrannica. Esta es la segunda edición revisada en los años 90, donde se mejoraron algunos tomos y se añadieron 6 más considerando nuevas obras del siglo XX.

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• 2nd Revised edition ©1990 printed 1991
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In the world of books, there are hundreds of timeless classics. But only one collection of great works is a classic in itself - "Britannica's Great Books". This 60-volume set brings you centuries of celebrated writings from the greatest minds of all time, including Plato, Shakespeare, Swift, Freud, Hemingway and Twain. "Britannica's Great Books" are truly a valuable lifetime reading companion, with 517 timeless works containing the great thoughts, theories and insights that have shaped our culture today, offering ideas that will continue to inspire mankind for centuries to come. To buy such a comprehensive collection separately would be tremendously difficult and nearly impossible. "The Great Books", and the priceless education they bring you, represent what is perhaps the single greatest book value on the market today. The new "Great Books" provide a well-rounded, liberal arts education in many fields of study. Philosophy, religion, mathematics, psychology, astronomy, politics and anthropology are just a few of the areas you can explore from the ancient Greeks to such 20th century greats as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and T.S. Eliot. You will find "Great Books" useful for practical, everyday needs, too, like speech writing and business presentations, not to mention great family conversations at the dinner table or stimulating discussions with colleagues and friends.

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Great Books of the Western World

Contents of the 60-Volume Set (1990 Edition)

1. The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas

2. The Syntopicon (cont.)

3. Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey

4. Aeschylus, Plays

Sophocles, Plays

Euripides, Plays

Aristophanes, Plays

5. Herodotus, The History of the Persian Wars

Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

6. Plato, Dialogues, The Seventh Letter

7. Aristotle, Works

8. Aristotle, Works (cont.)

9. Hippocrates, Works

Galen, On the Natural Faculties

10. Euclid, Elements

Archimedes, Works

Nicomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic

11. Lucretius, The Way Things Are

Epictetus, Discourses

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Plotinus, The Six Enneads

12. Virgil, Eclogues, Georgics, The Aeneid

13. Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

14. Tacitus, The Annals, The Histories

15. Ptolemy, The Almagest

Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Johannes Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV-V), The Harmonies of the World (Book V)

16. Saint Augustine, The Confessions, The City of God, On Christian Doctrine

17. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

18. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (cont.)

19. Dante, The Divine Comedy

Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales

20. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

21. Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

22. François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

23. Desiderius Erasmus, Praise of Folly

Michel de Montaigne, Essays

24. William Shakespeare, Plays

25. William Shakespeare, Plays (cont.), Sonnets

26. William Gilbert, On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies

Galileo, Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences

William Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, On the Circulation of the Blood,

On the Generation of Animals

27. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

28. Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, New Atlantis

René 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

29. John Milton, English Minor Poems, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Areopagitica

30. Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters, Pensées, Scientific Treatises

31. Molière, The School for Wives, The Critique of the School for Wives, Tartuffe, Don Juan, The Miser,

The Would-Be Gentleman, The Would-Be Invalid

Jean Racine, Berenice, Phaedra

32. Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Optics

Christiaan Huygens, Treatise on Light

33. John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, Second Essay on Civil Government, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

George Berkeley, The Principles of Human Knowledge

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

34. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

Voltaire, Candide

Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew

35. Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, A Discourse on Political Economy, The Social Contract

36. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

37. Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

38. Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (cont.)

39. Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of Practical

Reason, Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals,

The Science of Right, The Critique of Judgment

40. American State Papers (Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution of the United States of America)

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, The Federalist Papers

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Representative Government, Utilitarianism

41. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson

42. Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry

Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity

43. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Right, The Philosophy of History

Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

44. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

45. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette

46. Jane Austen, Emma

George Eliot, Middlemarch

47. Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

48. Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn

49. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man

50. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party

Karl Marx, Capital (Vol. 1)

51. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

52. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder

53. William James, The Principles of Psychology

54. Sigmund Freud, Major Works (including Selected Papers on Hysteria, The Interpretation of Dreams, A General Introduction

to Psychoanalysis, Civilization and Its Discontents, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis)

55. 20th Century Philosophy and Religion:

William James, Pragmatism

Henri Bergson, An Introduction to Metaphysics

John Dewey, Experience and Education

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

Martin Heidegger, What Is Metaphysics?

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

Karl Barth, The Word of God and the Word of Man

56. 20th Century Natural Science:

Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis

Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics

Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

Arthur Eddington, The Expanding Universe

Niels Bohr, Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature (selections), Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems

in Atomic Physics

G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology

Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy

Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life?

Theodosius Dobzhansky, Genetics and the Origin of Species

C.H. Waddington, The Nature of Life

57. 20th Century Social Science (I):

Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class

R.H. Tawney, The Acquisitive Society

John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

58. 20th Century Social Science (II):

James George Frazer, The Golden Bough (selections)

Max Weber, Essays in Sociology (selections)

Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology (selections)

59. 20th Century Imaginative Literature (I):

Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle

George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

Marcel Proust, Swann in Love (from Remembrance of Things Past)

Willa Cather, A Lost Lady

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

60. 20th Century Imaginative Literature (II):

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

D.H. Lawrence, The Prussian Officer

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

Eugene O’Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children

Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

George Orwell, Animal Farm

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Note: The Bible should also be considered as part of this list. It is indexed in The Syntopicon. The editors explain that it was not included in the Great Books set because it was assumed that any literate person would already have a copy.

The editors also note that the twentieth-century selections are just a provisional sampling: It remains to be seen which of them, in the perspective of time, will prove to be as enduring as the earlier works.