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        There are 60 volumes in the 1990 edition of Great Books of 
the Western 

         Contents:   

         1. The Syncopticon I
         2. The Syncopticon II
         3. Homer
         4. Aeschylus
            Sophocles
            Euripides
            Aristophanes

         5. Herodotus
            Thucydides

         6. Plato
         7. Aristotle I
         8. Aristotle II
         9. Hippocrates
            Galen
        10. Euclid
            Archimedes
            Nicomachus
        11. Lucretius
            Epictetus
            Marcus Aurelius
            Plotinus
        12. Virgil
        13. Plutarch
        14. Tacitus
        15. Ptolemy
            Copernicus
            Kepler
        16. Augustine
        17. Thomas Aquinas I
        18. Thomas Aquinas II      
        19. Dante
            Chaucer
        20. Calvin
        21. Machiavelli
            Hobbes
        22. Rabelais
        23. Erasmus
            Montaigne
        24. Shakespeare I
        25. Shakespeare II     
        26. Gilbert
            Galileo
            Harvey
        27. Cervantes
        28. Francis Bacon
            Descartes
            Spinoza
        29. Milton
        30. Pascal
        31. Moliere
            Racine
        32. Newton
            Huygens
        33. Locke
            Berkeley
            Hume
        34. Swift
            Voltaire
            Diderot
        35. Montesquieu
            Rousseau
        36. Adam Smith
        37. Gibbon I
        38. Gibbon II
        39. Kant
        40. American State Papers
            The Federalist
            J. S. Mill
        41. Boswell
        42. Lavoisier
            Faraday
        43. Hegel
            Kierkegaard
            Nietzsche
        44. Tocqueville
        45. Goethe
            Balzac
        46. Austen
            George Eliot
        47. Dickens
        48. Melville
        49. Darwin
        50. Marx
            Engels
        51. Tolstoy
        52. Dostoevsky
            Ibsen
        53. William James
        54. Freud
        55. William James
            Bergson
            Dewey
            Whitehead
            Russell
            Heidegger
            Wittgenstein
            Barth
        56. Poincare
            Planck
            Whitehead
            Einstein
            Eddington
            Bohr
            Hardy
            Heisenberg
            Schrodinger
            Dobzhansky
            Waddington
        57. Veblen
            Tawney
            Keynes
        58. Frazer
            Weber
            Huizinga
            Levi-Strauss
        59. Henry James
            Shaw
            Conrad
            Chekhov
            Pirandello
            Proust
            Cather
            Mann
            Joyce
        60. Woolf
            Kafka
            Lawrence
            T. S. Eliot
            O'Neill
            Futzgerald
            Faulkner
            Brecht
            Hemingway
            Orwell
            Brecht

WHAT IN THE 1990 EDITION HAS BEEN DROPPED FROM THE 1952               
              EDITION?

                  11. Apollonius
                  36. Sterne          (These volume numbers are from 
                  the 1952 edition)
                  37. Fielding
                  45. Fourier        

        WHAT IN THE 1990 EDITION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE 1952 EDITION?  
            

                  20. Calvin
                  31. Moliere
                      Racine
                  34. Voltaire
                      Diderot
                  43. Kierkegaard
                      Nietzsche
                  44. Tocqueville
                  46. Austen
                      George Eliot
                  47. Dickens
                  48. Twain
                  52. Ibsen
         Volumes 55 through 60 are labelled  "20th Century"

                  55. William James (yes, again)
                      Bergson
                      Dewey
                      Whitehead
                      Russell 
                      Heidegger
                      Wittgenstein
                      Barth
                  56. Poincare
                      Planck
                      Whitehead
                      Einstein
                      Eddington
                      Bohr
                      Hardy
                      Heisenberg
                      Schrodinger
                      Dobzhansky
                      Waddington
                  57. Veblen
                      Tawney
                      Keynes
                  58. Frazer
                      Weber
                      Huizinga
                      Levi-Strauss
                  59. Henry James
                      Shaw
                      Conrad
                      Chekhov
                      Pirandello
                      Proust
                      Cather
                      Mann
                      Joyce
                  60. Woolf
                      Kafka
                      Lawrence
                      T. S. Eliot
                      O'Neill
                      Fitzgerald
                      Faulkner
                      Brecht
                      Hemingway
                      Orwell
                      Becket
                                             Ken Martindale

P.S. My previous reply to your E-mail, in which I listed the contents
of the 1990 edition of the Great Books of the Western World, was
abruptly terminated by AOL The 1990 edition caused a considerable
rumpus; there were charges of selling out to modernity.  Perhaps
because of that, the 1990 edition was a selling flop, and is
practically unobtainable today, except by insisting that the EB-GB
establishment in Chicago sell you a set.


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