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GREAT BOOKS, 1972 EDITION

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20010701
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Here is one version of Mortimer Adler's list of the Great Books of the Western World, from his 1972 edition of How to Read a Book. The works are in approximate chronological order, as published; many authors have more than one work on the list. Other versions of the list included Hemingway, Faulkner and others.

Homer, Iliad, Odyssey

The Old Testament

Aeschylus, tragedies

Sophocles, tragedies

Herodotus, history

Euripides, tragedies

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

Hippocrates, medical writings

Aristophanes, comedies

Plato, dialogues

Aristotle, various

Epicurus, letters

Euclid, ...

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