Franklin Library The Great Books of the Western World Series

All volumes in this series were bound in full leather with silk moiré end papers. The Great Books of the Western World was originally published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica in collaboration with The University of Chicago. Franklin Library published The 25th Anniversary Limited edition of The Great Books of the Western World under agreement with the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

There were a total of 96 books published in the series including the Guide to the Great Books of the Western World in 3 volumes.

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  1. Guide to The Great Books of the Western World - 3 volumes

  2. Complete Plays by Aeschylus - 1978

  3. Works of Aristotle - volume one - 1978

  4. Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes - volume one - 1978

  5. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - 1978

  6. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - 1978

  7. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1978

  8. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1978

  9. The Odyssey by Homer - 1978

  10. Poetry and Prose of John Milton - 1978

  11. Histories by William Shakespeare - volume one - 1978

  12. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - 1978

  13. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides - 1978

  14. Works of Aristotle - volume two - 1979

  15. The Works of Hippocrates and Galen - 1979

  16. The Iliad by Homer - 1979

  17. Works of Michel de Montaigne - volume one - 1979

  18. Works of Michel de Montaigne - volume two - 1979

  19. The Works of Plato - volume one - 1979

  20. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume one - 1979

  21. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - volume one - 1979

  22. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - volume two - 1979

  23. Comedies and Tragedies by William Shakespeare - volume two - 1979

  24. Later Plays by William Shakespeare - volume three - 1979

  25. The Annals and The Histories by Tacitus - 1979

  26. The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison and Jay - 1980

  27. The Confessions of Saint Augustine - 1980

  28. Selected Writings of Sir Francis Bacon - 1980

  29. The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - 1980

  30. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume one - 1980

  31. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume two - 1980

  32. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - volume one - 1980

  33. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - volume two - 1980

  34. Works of Michel de Montaigne - volume three - 1980

  35. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume two - 1980

  36. Later Plays by William Shakespeare - volume four - 1980

  37. Plays by Sophocles - 1980

  38. The Aeneid by Virgil - 1980

  39. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - volume one - 1981

  40. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - volume two - 1981

  41. The Major Works of Sigmund Freud - volume one - 1981

  42. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume three - 1981

  43. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume four - 1981

  44. Works of Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Titus Lucretius Carus - 1981

  45. Political Writings of John Stuart Mill - 1981

  46. The Works of Plato - Volume Two - 1981

  47. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume three - 1981

  48. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume four - 1981

  49. Later Plays by William Shakespeare - volume five - 1981

  50. The Eclogues and The Georgics of Virgil - 1981

  51. Plays by Aristophanes - volume one - 1982

  52. Plays by Aristophanes - volume two - 1982

  53. Works of Aristotle - volume three - 1982

  54. Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes - volume two - 1982

  55. Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1982

  56. The Major Works of Sigmund Freud - volume two- 1982

  57. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume five - 1982

  58. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume six - 1982

  59. Selected Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau - 1982

  60. Works of Rene Descartes and Baruch Spinoza - 1982

  61. Tragedies by William Shakespeare - volume six - 1982

  62. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - 1982

  63. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - volume one - 1983

  64. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - volume two - 1983

  65. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - volume three - 1983

  66. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - volume one - 1983

  67. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - volume two - 1983

  68. The Major Works of Sigmund Freud - volume three - 1983

  69. Plays by Euripides - volume one - 1983

  70. Political Writings of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli - 1983

  71. The Works of Plato - volume three - 1983

  72. The Enneads by Plotinus - 1983

  73. Sonnets and Final Plays by William Shakespeare - volume seven - 1983

  74. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne - 1983

  75. Works of Aristotle - volume four - 1984

  76. Works of George Berkeley, John Locke and David Hume - 1984

  77. Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx - 1984

  78. Plays by Euripides - volume two - 1984

  79. Works of Galileo Galilei, William Gilbert and William Harvey - 1984

  80. The History of Herodotus - 1984

  81. The Spirit of Law by Charles de Montesquieu - 1984

  82. Provincial Letters, Pensees, and Scientific Treatises by Blaise Pascal - 1984

  83. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - volume one - 1984

  84. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - volume two - 1984

  85. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - volume three - 1984

  86. Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas - volume one - 1985

  87. Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas - volume two - 1985

  88. Works of Archimedes, Apollonius, Euclid and Nicomachus - 1985

  89. The City of God and Christian Doctrine by St. Augustine - 1985

  90. Works of Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler and Ptolemy - 1985

  91. Works of Michael Faraday, Joseph Fourier and Antoine Lavoisier - 1985

  92. Works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Immanuel Kant - 1985

  93. Works of Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton - 1985

  94. Principles of Psychology by William James - 1985

  1. Complete Plays by Aeschylus - 1978

  2. Works of Aristotle - volume one - 1978

  3. Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes - volume one - 1978

  4. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - 1978

  5. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - 1978

  6. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1978

  7. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1978

  8. The Odyssey by Homer - 1978

  9. Poetry and Prose of John Milton - 1978

  10. Histories by William Shakespeare - volume one - 1978

  11. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - 1978

  12. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides - 1978

  13. Works of Aristotle - volume two - 1979

  14. The Works of Hippocrates and Galen - 1979

  15. The Iliad by Homer - 1979

  16. Works of Michel de Montaigne - volume one - 1979

  17. Works of Michel de Montaigne - volume two - 1979

  18. The Works of Plato - volume one - 1979

  19. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume one - 1979

  20. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - volume one - 1979

  21. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - volume two - 1979

  22. Comedies and Tragedies by William Shakespeare - volume two - 1979

  23. Later Plays by William Shakespeare - volume three - 1979

  24. The Annals and The Histories by Tacitus - 1979

  25. The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison and Jay - 1980

  26. The Confessions of Saint Augustine - 1980

  27. Selected Writings of Sir Francis Bacon - 1980

  28. The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - 1980

  29. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume one - 1980

  30. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume two - 1980

  31. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - volume one - 1980

  32. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - volume two - 1980

  33. Works of Michel de Montaigne - volume three - 1980

  34. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume two - 1980

  35. Later Plays by William Shakespeare - volume four - 1980

  36. Plays by Sophocles - 1980

  37. The Aeneid by Virgil - 1980

  38. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - volume one - 1981

  39. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - volume two - 1981

  40. The Major Works of Sigmund Freud - volume one - 1981

  41. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume three - 1981

  42. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume four - 1981

  43. Works of Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Titus Lucretius Carus - 1981

  44. Political Writings of John Stuart Mill - 1981

  45. The Works of Plato - Volume Two - 1981

  46. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume three - 1981

  47. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume four - 1981

  48. Later Plays by William Shakespeare - volume five - 1981

  49. The Eclogues and The Georgics of Virgil - 1981

  50. Plays by Aristophanes - volume one - 1982

  51. Plays by Aristophanes - volume two - 1982

  52. Works of Aristotle - volume three - 1982

  53. Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes - volume two - 1982

  54. Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1982

  55. The Major Works of Sigmund Freud - volume two- 1982

  56. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume five - 1982

  57. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume six - 1982

  58. Selected Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau - 1982

  59. Works of Rene Descartes and Baruch Spinoza - 1982

  60. Tragedies by William Shakespeare - volume six - 1982

  61. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - 1982

  62. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - volume one - 1983

  63. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - volume two - 1983

  64. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - volume three - 1983

  65. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - volume one - 1983

  66. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - volume two - 1983

  67. The Major Works of Sigmund Freud - volume three - 1983

  68. Plays by Euripides - volume one - 1983

  69. Political Writings of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli - 1983

  70. The Works of Plato - volume three - 1983

  71. The Enneads by Plotinus - 1983

  72. Sonnets and Final Plays by William Shakespeare - volume seven - 1983

  73. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne - 1983

  74. Works of Aristotle - volume four - 1984

  75. Works of George Berkeley, John Locke and David Hume - 1984

  76. Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx - 1984

  77. Plays by Euripides - volume two - 1984

  78. Works of Galileo Galilei, William Gilbert and William Harvey - 1984

  79. The History of Herodotus - 1984

  80. The Spirit of Law by Charles de Montesquieu - 1984

  81. Provincial Letters, Pensees, and Scientific Treatises by Blaise Pascal - 1984

  82. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - volume one - 1984

  83. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - volume two - 1984

  84. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - volume three - 1984

  85. Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas - volume one - 1985

  86. Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas - volume two - 1985

  87. Works of Archimedes, Apollonius, Euclid and Nicomachus - 1985

  88. The City of God and Christian Doctrine by St. Augustine - 1985

  89. Works of Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler and Ptolemy - 1985

  90. Works of Michael Faraday, Joseph Fourier and Antoine Lavoisier - 1985

  91. Works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Immanuel Kant - 1985

  92. Works of Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton - 1985

  93. Principles of Psychology by William James - 1985