Great Books of the Western World
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Great Books Foundation, 130 Books
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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | 1308 | Italian | Italian | |
| 110 | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1400 | British | Middle english | |
| 152 | The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli | 1532 | Italian | Italian | |
| 345 | Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes | 1651 | British | English | |
| 145 | Gargantua and Pantagruel | Francois Rabelais | 1532 | French | French | |
| 75 | Essays | Michel de Montaigne | 1580 | French | French | |
| 343 | The Sonnets | William Shakespeare | 1609 | British | English | |
| 129 | First Folio | William Shakespeare | 1623 | British | English | |
| 2264 | Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality | Sigmund Freud | 1905 | Austrian | German | |
| 111 | The Waste Land | T. S. Eliot | 1922 | British | English |