Great books of the Western World Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago [Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

Shortly after I moved to New York at the age of 19, a friend bought a set of the Great Books of the Western World, published by the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's a wonderful set. The concept was ...

Fourteenth Edition, 1929.’ The appearance of a fresh edition of the premier encyclopædia in English is an event of the greatest importance in the world of books.

The former longtime chairman of the board of editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Adler co-founded the “Great Books of the Western World” series 50 years ago to make classic philosophy and ...

Britannica usually prints a new set every two years, but 2010's 32-volume set will be its last as the company goes fully digital.

Launched by the University of Chicago and the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1952, the Great Books of the Western World, Beam writes, “ [made] no concessions to contemporary taste, or even pleasure.” ...

While enjoying Christopher Beha’s recent book about reading the Harvard Classics, “The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else,” I was ...

Adler’s Syntopicon, as the index has since become known, would go on to be published as volumes two and three of the encyclopedia’s Great Books of the Western World 54-volume compendium.

The Great Books of the Western World were ostentatiously launched on April 15, 1952, at a glittering black-tie affair in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.

Originally published by Encyclopedia Britannica in 1952, Great Books of the Western World offered a selection of core texts representing the highest achievements of European and North American culture ...