Great Books of the Western World
[NOTE: This is an edited version of the Wikipedia article. Links for each book have been replaced with links to actual ebooks on this site, not necessarily the same edition used for the Great Books of the Western World series.]
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 canonin a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes.
The project got its start at the University of Chicago. University president Robert Hutchins collaborated with Mortimer Adler to develop a course, generally aimed at businessmen, for the purpose of filling in gaps in education, to make one more well-rounded and familiar with the "Great Books" and ideas of the past three millennia. Among the original students was William Benton, future US Senator and later CEO of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He proposed selecting the greatest books of the canon, complete and unabridged, having Hutchins and Adler edit them for publishing by Encyclopædia Britannica.
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