英文版《西方世界的偉大著作》 是20世紀出版界的偉大成就之一，該套書集結了從古至今重要的西方著作。全套書包含了130位作家的517種著作。這套書將西方文學經典的重要作品都收集其中，是一部有權威性、正確性及完整性的合輯。

• 共60冊，收錄了130位作者的517部作品。
• 收集了近60位作者過去未曾發表過的資料，其中45位是20世紀的重要作家。
• 每冊根據不同的主題有不同的顏色，分成4個主題：文學、數學和自然科學、歷史和社會科學、哲學和神學。
• Syntopicon的每一章都包含了概述、主題大綱及延伸閱讀的參考資料。
• Great Conversation, 集合了一些重要的背景資料，例如大事記、照片，以及從作家和他的作品中找到的引言。
• 作家包括：亞里斯多德、奧斯汀、喀爾文、喬叟、哥白尼、但丁、達爾文、狄更斯、弗洛伊德、希波克拉提斯、荷馬、馬克思、柏拉圖、莎士比亞、托爾斯泰、托克維爾、吐溫、維吉爾等。

Britannica's Great Books of the Western World

Information... Knowledge... Understanding... Wisdom...

From the ancient classics to the masterpieces of the 20th century, Great Books is all the introduction you'll ever need to the ideas, stories and discoveries that have shaped modern civilisation. This collection of 517 classics in 60 beautifully bound volumes is colour-coded into four subject categories: literature, history, philosophy and science. And since this edition includes works from 20th-century authors, it's the most up-to-date collection of great books ever.

Product Details

Reading and understanding great works by history's outstanding minds has always been considered the substance of a liberal education. The Great Books of the Western World has been acclaimed as the greatest publishing venture of the 20th-century. The set now consists of 60 volumes, with 517 works by 130 authors spanning 30 centuries, on a total of 37,000 pages containing 29 million words. Among Great Books' 130 authors, 47 are writers of imaginative literature; 29 are masters of mathematics and/or the natural sciences; 28 are historians or social scientists and 28 or more are philosophers and/or theologians. (This totals 132 because William James and Alfred North Whitehead have made contributions in both of the latter two subject categories.) Additionally, the two-volume SyntopiconR lists some 3,020 topics under 102 Great Ideas and refers you to every significant statement on that topic by the authors in the Great Books. It is as though all 517 works in Great Books had been read 3,020 times -- each time with a particular question in mind: What do the great authors have to say about this particular topic?

Volume Details

Volumes 1 and 2 of this collection are the SyntopiconR, a unique two-volume guide (not sold separately) that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it. The SyntopiconR comprises a new kind of reference work -- accomplishing for ideas what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopaedia accomplishes for facts. Also included is Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos and quotes from the classic works and their authors.

Special colours on Great Books' spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas -

GREEN: Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Poetry