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Author Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001.

Title A general introduction to the great books and to a liberal education / by Mortimer J. Adler and Peter Wolff ; with a preface by Robert M. Hutchins
Published Chicago : Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1959

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Description xviii, 195 pages ; 21 cm
Series The Great ideas program ; 1
Great ideas program ; 1
Contents Apology Crito ; The republic / Plato -- Odeipus the king Antigone / Sophocles -- Nichomachean ethics Politics / Aristotle -- The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans / Plutarch -- Book of Job -- The confessions / St. Augustine -- The Essays / Montaigne -- Hamlet / William Shakespeare -- Concerning civil government / John Locke -- Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift -- The decline and fall of the Roman empire / Gibbon -- The declaration of independence The constitution of the United States The federalist -- Manifesto of the Communist party / Karl Marx / Max Engels
Summary First in a set of reading plans for the Great books of the Western world series. Study guide
Analysis Great books of the Western world
Notes Cover title: An introduction to the great books and to a liberal education
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 192-195
SUBJECT Great books of the Western world. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93028548
Subject Canon (Literature) -- Guidebooks.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Guidebooks.
Author Wolff, Peter, 1923-
Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc.
LC no. 59016986
Other Titles Introduction to the great books and to a liberal education
OTHER TI Great books of the Western world. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93028548
Other Titles Great ideas program
Introduction to the great books and to a liberal education