| Influential compendium of western writing edited and compiled by Mortimer Adler and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1952.
Volumes List:
- The Great Conversation
- The Great Ideas I
- The Great Ideas II
- Homer
- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes.
- Herotodus, Thucycidides
- Plato
- Aristotle I
- Aristotle II
- Hippocrates, Galen
- Euclid, Archimedes, Appolonius, Nicomachus
- Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
- Virgil
- Plutarch
- Tacitus
- Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
- Plotinus
- Augustine
- Thomas Aquinas I
- Thomas Aquinas II
- Dante
- Chaucer
- Machiavelli, Hobbes
- Rablais
- Montaigne
- Shakespeare I
- Shakespeare II
- Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey
- Cervantes
- Francis Bacon
- Descartes, Spinoza
- Milton
- Pascal
- Newton, Huygens
- Locke, Berkeley, Hume
- Swift, Sterne
- Fielding
- Montesquieu, Rousseau
- Adam Smith
- Gibbon I
- Gibbon II
- Kant
- American State Papers, The Federalist, J. S. Mill
- Boswell
- Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday
- Hegel
- Goethe
- Melville
- Darwin
- Marx, Engels
- Tolstoy
- Dostoevsky
- William James
- Freud
There are annual supplements and it is often sold as an add-on to the Encyclopaedia. The editors principal contribution is in the Great Ideas which is a syntopic discussion of 100 ideas cross referencing the main volumes.
Got my copy for a good report card in third grade. Note that in spite of the number assigned to Kant, this was first published several decades before Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. | 
