$600 · Great Books of the Western World Complete Set of 60 Books

A complete set of the Great Books of the Western World, containing all the greatest works of literature pertaining to Western culture. Originally published in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica in 54 volumes. This revised edition, originally published in 1990, expanded the set to 60 volumes. You may never need to buy another book after acquiring this set. Pickup is in Saanich close to the Monkey Tree Pub and ICBC off McKenzie Ave. 1+2. The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas 3. Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey 4. Aeschylus Plays, Sophocles Plays, Euripides Plays, Aristophanes Plays 5. Herodotus: History of the Persian Wars, Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War 6. Plato - Dialogues, Seventh Letter 7+8. Aristotle 9. Hippocrates, Galen - On the Natural Faculties 10. Euclid, Archimedes, 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 - Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans 14. Tacitus - Annals and The Histories 15. Ptolemy - The Almagest, Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Johannes Kepler - Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV-V) and The Harmonies of the World (Book V) 16. Saint Augustine - The Confessions, City of God, On Christian Doctrine 17+18. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica 19. Dante - Divine Comedy, Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde and 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+25. William Shakespeare - Plays, 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 - Provincial Letters, Pensées - Scientific Treatises 31. Molière - The School for Wives, 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 - Spirit of Laws Jean-Jacques Rousseau - A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, A Discourse on Political Economy, The Social Contract 36. Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations 37+38. Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 39. Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, 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 and John Jay: 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 - Philosophy of Right, 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 - Manifest 51. Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace 52. Fyodor Dosto 53. William James- Principles of Psychology 54. Sigmund Freud - Major Works 55. 20th Century Philosophy and Religion 56. 20th Century Natural Science 57+58. 20th Century Social Science 59+60. 20th Century Imaginative Literature