Great Books of the Western World 1996 Complete 60 Volume Set Brand new In

GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD Britannica 60 vol. newCOMPLETE SET - 60 VOLUMES -Containing more than 600 classic works by over 150 authors, The Great Books of the Western World has been acclaimed as the greatest publishing achievement of the 20th-century.These great books in these fine bindings may be the last available at these low prices and are likely to become rare collectibles in the near future. Great Collection highlights at a glance:Syntopicon and index: volumes 1 and 2 comprise this unique guide that enables you to investigate a particular idea, such as courage or democracy, and compare the perspectives of different authorsBlack Color-coded Volumes: four colors identify each volume by subject area -- Imaginative Literature, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, History and Social Science, and Philosophy and TheologyReading Guidance: a special section offers advice on how to get the most out of the Great Books collection, including a 10-year reading plan.Reading and understanding great works by history s outstanding minds is the basis of western education.The set consists of 60 volumes, with 600 works by 150 authors spanning 30 centuries, on a total of 37,000 pages containing more than 29 million words. Among the Great Books` 150 authors, 50 are writers of imaginative literature; 38 are masters of mathematics and/or the natural sciences; 36 are historians or social scientists, and 36 or more are philosophers and/or theologians. (This totals 150 because some authors have made contributions in more than one categories).The two-volume Syntopicon lists some 3,020 topics under 102 Great Ideas and refers you to every significant statement on that topic by the authors in the Great Books. It is as though all the works in The Great Books had been read 3,020 times -- each time with a particular question in mind: What do the great authors have to say about this particular topic?Compare and contrast different ideas with the Syntopican GuideVolumes 1 and 2 of this collection are the Syntopicon , a unique two-volume guide that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it.The Syntopicon comprises a new kind of reference work -- accomplishing for ideas and thoughts what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopedia accomplishes for facts. Also included is Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos and quotes from the classic works and their great authors. Bindings and Condition The 60 volume set is black hard covers with gold gilt top edged and gold lettering against a grey, red, green or blue

color coded background. The set of 60 volumes measure approximately 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". This would be a wonderful reference set. The books are cellophane wrapped The set has been unread and spines are stiff and all the corners are square. Titles The titles for The Great Books are:Volume 1 Syntopicon Index to The Great Ideas IVolume 2 Syntopicon Index to The Great Ideas IIVolume 3 HomerVolume 4 Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, AristophanesVolume 5 Herodotus, ThucydidesVolume 6 PlatoVolume 7 Aristotle IVolume 8 Aristotle IIVolume 9 Hippocrates, GalenVolume 10 Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, NicomachusVolume 11 Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, PlotinusVolume 12 VirgilVolume 13 PlutarchVolume 14 TacitusVolume 15 Ptolemy, Copernicus, KeplerVolume 16 AugustineVolume 17 Thomas Aquinas IVolume 18 Thomas Aquinas IIVolume 19 Dante ChaucerVolume 20 CalvinVolume 21 Machiavelli, HobbesVolume 22 RabelaisVolume 23 Erasmus, MontaigneVolume 24 Shakespeare IVolume 25 Shakespeare IIVolume 26 Gilbert, Galileo, HarveyVolume 27 CervantesVolume 28 Bacon, Descartes, SpinozaVolume 29 MiltonVolume 30 PascalVolume 31 Moliere, RacineVolume 32 Newton, HuygensVolume 33 Locke, Berkeley, HumeVolume 34 Swift, Voltaire, DiderotVolume 35 Montesquieu, RousseauVolume 36 Adam SmithVolume 37 Gibbon IVolume 38 Gibbon IIVolume 39 KantVolume 40 American State Papers, The Federalist, J. S. MillVolume 41 BoswellVolume 42 Lavoisier, Fourier, FaradayVolume 43 Hegel, Kierkegaard, NietzscheVolume 44 TocquevilleVolume 45 Goethe, BalzacVolume 46 AustenVolume 47 DickensVolume 48 Melville, TwainVolume 49 DarwinVolume 50 MarxVolume 51 TolstoyVolume 52 Dostoevsky, IbsenVolume 53 William JamesVolume 54 FreudVolume 55 Philosophy and ReligionVolume 56 Natural ScienceVolume 57 Social Science IVolume 58 Social Science IIVolume 59 Imaginative Literature IVolume 60 Imaginative Literature II