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Family participation plan for reading and discussing the Great books of the Western World (The Great ideas program) by Mortimer Jerome Adler 9 copies
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 1: The Great Conversation by Robert Maynard Hutchins 541 copies, 10 reviewsVolume 1, 1952 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 1: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon I: Angel - Idea by Mortimer J. Adler 18 copiesVolume 1, 1990 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 2: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon I: Angel - Love by Encyclopedia Britannica 302 copiesVolume 2, 1952 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 2: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon II: Immortality - Punishment by Mortimer J. Adler 18 copies, 1 reviewVolume 2, 1990 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 3: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon II: Man - World by Encyclopedia Britannica 341 copies, 2 reviewsVolume 3, 1952 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 3: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon III: Quality - World by Mortimer Jerome Adler 1 copyVolume 3, 1990 ed.
The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer 5,796 copies, 50 reviewsVolume 4
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes by Encyclopedia Britannica 475 copies, 2 reviewsVolume 5
Britannica Great Books: Herodotus and Thucydides by Encyclopedia Britannica 351 copiesVolume 6, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Plato by Encyclopedia Britannica 349 copies, 1 reviewVolume 7, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Aristotle I by Aristotle 331 copies, 1 reviewVolume 8, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Aristotle II by Encyclopedia Britannica 339 copiesVolume 9, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Hippocrates and Galen by Encyclopedia Britannica 372 copies, 1 reviewVolume 10, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus by Encyclopedia Britannica 30 copiesVolume 10, 1990 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus by Encyclopedia Britannica 366 copiesVolume 11, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus by Encyclopedia Britannica 21 copiesVolume 11, 1990 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius by Encyclopedia Britannica 332 copiesVolume 12, 1952 ed.
Poems by Virgil 410 copies, 5 reviewsVolume 13, 1952 ed.
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch 2,433 copies, 27 reviewsVolume 14, 1952 ed.
The Annals / The Histories by Tacitus 827 copies, 6 reviewsVolume 15
Britannica Great Books: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler by Encyclopedia Britannica 405 copies, 2 reviewsVolume 16, 1952 ed.
The Six Enneads by Plotinus 699 copies, 8 reviewsVolume 17
The Confessions / The City of God / On Christian Doctrine by Saint Augustine 408 copiesVolume 18, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Aquinas I by Encyclopedia Britannica 357 copiesVolume 19, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Dante and Chaucer by Encyclopedia Britannica 17 copiesVolume 19, 1990 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Aquinas II by Encyclopedia Britannica 353 copiesVolume 20, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Calvin by Mortimer J. Adler 30 copiesVolume 20, 1990 ed.
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 21,747 copies, 188 reviewsVolume 21
Troilus and Cressida and The Canterbury tales. With modern English versions of both works by Geoffrey Chaucer 375 copiesVolume 22, 1952 ed.
Great Books of the Western World Vol 23 Machiavelli, Hobbes by Niccolò Machiavelli 327 copies, 1 reviewVolume 23, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Erasmus and Montaigne by Encyclopedia Britannica 20 copiesVolume 23, 1990 ed.
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais 5,039 copies, 48 reviewsVolume 24
Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne 4,799 copies, 48 reviewsVolume 25
Britannica Great Books: Shakespeare I by Encyclopedia Britannica 278 copiesVolume 26, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Shakespeare II by Encyclopedia Britannica 268 copiesVolume 27, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey by Encyclopedia Britannica 326 copies, 1 reviewVolume 28, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza by Mortimer J. Adler 19 copiesVolume 28, 1990 ed.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 30,527 copies, 449 reviewsVolume 29
Britannica Great Books: Bacon by Francis Bacon 409 copies, 1 reviewVolume 30, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Descartes and Spinoza by Encyclopedia Britannica 321 copiesVolume 31, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Moliere and Racine by Encyclopedia Britannica 16 copiesVolume 31, 1990 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Milton by John Milton 405 copies, 1 reviewVolume 32, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Pascal by Blaise Pascal 349 copies, 1 reviewVolume 33, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Newton and Huygens by Encyclopedia Britannica 301 copiesVolume 34, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Swift, Voltaire, Diderot by Mortimer J. Adler 14 copiesVolume 34, 1990 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Locke, Berkeley, Hume by Encyclopedia Britannica 362 copiesVolume 35, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Swift and Sterne by Encyclopedia Britannica 260 copies, 1 reviewVolume 36, 1952 ed.
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 8,123 copies, 96 reviewsVolume 37
Britannica Great Books: Montesquieu and Rousseau by Encyclopedia Britannica 284 copiesVolume 38, 1952 ed.
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 6,102 copies, 45 reviewsVolume 39
Britannica Great Books: Gibbon I by Edward Gibbon 268 copiesVolume 40, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Gibbon II by Edward Gibbon 246 copiesVolume 41, 1952 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 42: Kant by Immanuel Kant 367 copiesVolume 42, 1952 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 42: Lavoisier and Faraday by Encyclopedia Britannica 18 copiesVolume 42, 1990 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 43: American State Papers, The Federalist, and J. S. Mill by Robert Maynard Hutchins 391 copiesVolume 43, 1952 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 43: Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche by Encyclopedia Britannica 27 copiesVolume 43, 1990 ed.
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 3,899 copies, 42 reviewsVolume 44, 1952 ed.
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 5,760 copies, 34 reviewsVolume 44, 1990 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 45: Lavoisier, Fourier, and Faraday by Encyclopedia Britannica 292 copiesVolume 45, 1952 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 46: Hegel - The Philosophy of Right & The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 306 copies, 1 reviewVolume 46, 1952 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 46: Austen and Eliot by Encyclopedia Britannica 17 copiesVolume 46, 1990 ed.
Faust I & II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5,425 copies, 40 reviewsVolume 47, 1952 ed.
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 5,592 copies, 89 reviewsVolume 47, 1990 ed.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 35,560 copies, 541 reviewsVolume 48, 1952 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 48: Melville and Twain by Encyclopedia Britannica 26 copiesVolume 48, 1990 ed.
The Origin of Species / The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin 695 copies, 5 reviewsVolume 49
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 50: Capital; and, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 338 copies, 1 reviewVolume 50
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 28,856 copies, 458 reviewsVolume 51
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 29,496 copies, 330 reviewsVolume 52, 1952 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 52: Dostoevsky and Ibsen by Encyclopedia Britannica 23 copiesVolume 52, 1990 ed.
The Principles of Psychology by William James 727 copies, 2 reviewsVolume 53
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 54: Major Works of Sigmund Freud by Sigmund Freud 358 copiesVolume 54
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 55: 20th Century Philosophy and Religion by Mortimer J. Adler 26 copiesVolume 55
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 56: 20th Century Natural Science by Mortimer J. Adler 24 copiesVolume 56
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 57: 20th Century Social Science I by Mortimer J. Adler 22 copiesVolume 57
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 58: 20th Century Social Science II by Mortimer J. Adler 20 copiesVolume 58
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 59: 20th Century Imaginative Literature I by Mortimer J. Adler 24 copiesVolume 59, 1990 ed.
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 60: 20th Century Imaginative Literature II by Mortimer J. Adler 20 copiesVolume 60, 1990 ed.

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The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World by Mortimer Jerome Adler 130 copies, 1 reviewVolumes 2-3, 1952 ed.; Volumes 1-3, 1990 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Aristotle I and II by 1993 Encyclopedia Britannica Great Books 34 copiesVolumes 8-9, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Aquinas I and II by Encyclopedia Britannica 61 copies, 1 reviewVolumes 19-20, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books: Shakespeare I and II by Encyclopedia Britannica 34 copiesVolumes 26-27, 1952 ed.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 3,232 copies, 41 reviewsVolumes 40-41, 1952 ed.
Britannica Great Books of the Western World (54 Volumes) by Robert Maynard Hutchins 602 copies, 4 reviews54 Volume Set
Britannica Great Books of the Western World (60 Volumes) by Mortimer J. Adler 592 copies, 9 reviews60 Volume Set

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