The Great Books of the Western World 25th Anniversary Limited Edition


Published by the Franklin Library 1978 - 1985 ( 96 volumes )

All volumes in this series were bound in full genuine leather with silk moiré end papers. The 25th Anniversary Limited edition of The Great Books of the Western World was published under agreement with the Encyclopaedia Britannica by the Franklin Library. The Great Books of the Western World was originally published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica in collaboration with The University of Chicago, under thedirection of Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins and Dr. Mortimer J. Adler.


The Great Books of the Western World - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire


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

Complete Plays by Aeschylus - 1978
Works of Aristotle - volume one - 1978
Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes - volume one - 1978
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - 1978
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - 1978
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1978
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1978
The Odyssey by Homer - 1978
Poetry and Prose of John Milton - 1978
Histories by William Shakespeare - volume one - 1978
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - 1978
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides - 1978
Works of Aristotle -  volume two - 1979
The Works of Hippocrates and Galen - 1979
The Iliad by Homer - 1979
Works of Michel de Montaigne - volume one - 1979
Works of Michel de Montaigne - volume two - 1979
The Works of Plato - volume one - 1979
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume one - 1979
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - volume one - 1979
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - volume two - 1979
Comedies and Tragedies by William Shakespeare - volume two - 1979
Later Plays by William Shakespeare - volume three - 1979
The Annals and The Histories by Tacitus - 1979
The Federalist by Hamilton,  Madison and Jay - 1980
The Confessions of Saint Augustine - 1980
Selected Writings of Sir Francis Bacon - 1980
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin - 1980
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume one - 1980
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume two - 1980
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - volume one - 1980
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - volume two - 1980
Works of Michel de Montaigne - volume three - 1980
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume two - 1980
Later Plays by William Shakespeare - volume four - 1980
Plays by Sophocles - 1980
The Aeneid by Virgil - 1980
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - volume one - 1981
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - volume two - 1981
The Major Works of Sigmund Freud - volume one - 1981
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume three - 1981
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume four - 1981
Works of Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Titus Lucretius Carus - 1981
Political Writings of John Stuart Mill - 1981
The Works of Plato - Volume Two - 1981
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume three - 1981
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch - volume four - 1981
Later Plays by William Shakespeare - volume five - 1981
The Eclogues and The Georgics of Virgil - 1981
Plays by Aristophanes - volume one - 1982
Plays by Aristophanes - volume two - 1982
Works of Aristotle - volume three - 1982
Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes - volume two - 1982
Troilus and Cressida by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1982
The Major Works of Sigmund Freud - volume two- 1982
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume five - 1982
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - volume six - 1982
Selected Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau - 1982
Works of René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza - 1982
Tragedies by William Shakespeare - volume six - 1982
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - 1982
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - volume one - 1983
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - volume two - 1983
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - volume three - 1983
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - volume one - 1983
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - volume two - 1983
The Major Works of Sigmund Freud - volume three - 1983
Plays by Euripides - volume one - 1983
Political Writings of Thomas Hobbes and Niccolo Machiavelli - 1983
The Works of Plato - volume three - 1983
The Enneads by Plotinus - 1983
Sonnets and Final Plays by William Shakespeare - volume seven - 1983
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne - 1983
Works of Aristotle - volume four - 1984
Works of George Berkeley, John Locke and David Hume - 1984
Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx - 1984
Plays by Euripides - volume two - 1984
Works of Galileo Galilei, William Gilbert and William Harvey - 1984
The History of Herodotus - 1984
The Spirit of Law by Charles de Montesquieu - 1984
Provincial Letters, Pensees, and Scientific Treatises by Blaise Pascal - 1984
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - volume one - 1984
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - volume two - 1984
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - volume three - 1984
Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas - volume one - 1985
Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas - volume two - 1985
Works of Archimedes, Apollonius, Euclid and Nicomachus - 1985
The City of God and Christian Doctrine by Saint Augustine - 1985
Works of Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler and Ptolemy - 1985
Works of Michael Faraday, Joseph Fourier and Antoine Lavoisier - 1985
Works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Immanuel Kant - 1985
Works of Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton - 1985
Principles of Psychology by William James - 1985