(028444) Adler, Mortimer, ed. Great Books Of The Western World [60 Volumes, Complete]. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1990. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vos. As New with no DJs. The complete 60 volume set of this important reference work. All volumes are still in shrink wrap as originally issued. Bindings are black with subject color coding on spines. Photograph shows the books in the shrink wrap. This collection represents the essential core of the Western literary canon, compiling 517 of the most significant achievements in literature, history, philosophy, and science. Includes: Aristotle, Austen, Calvin, Chaucer, Copernicus, Dante, Darwin, Dickens, Freud, Hippocrates, Homer, Marx, Plato, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Tocqueville, Twain, Virgil, and many more.