Blaise Pascal Mortimer J Adler

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 great books in 54 volumes. A second edition was published in 1990, in 60 volumes. Some translations were updated; some works were removed; and there were additions from the 20th century, in six new volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western civilization: the book must be relevant to c…