Great Books of the Western World

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Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volume...

This list was originally published in 1990 and was added to this site over 12 years ago.

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Cover of 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Cover of 'The Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

Cover of 'The Prince' by Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

Cover of 'Leviathan' by Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan

Cover of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel' by Francois Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Francois Rabelais

Cover of 'Essays' by Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne

Cover of 'The Sonnets' by William Shakespeare

The Sonnets

William Shakespeare

Cover of 'First Folio' by William Shakespeare

First Folio

William Shakespeare

Cover of 'Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality' by Sigmund Freud

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Cover of 'The Waste Land' by T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land