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.

So many fantasy books base their settings on Western Europe, but there are great additions to the genre that draw inspiration ...

And now the title of the set tells us that they are great books of the Western World; they belong to the intellectual tradition that takes its rise in the eastern Mediterranean and spreads ...

A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books By Alex Beam PublicAffairs, 256 pages, $24.95 Seasoned journalist Alex Beam’s brisk, breezy stroll through t… ...

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.

When I was growing up, Mortimer J. Adler championed “The Great Books of the Western World,” Clifton Fadiman promoted “The Lifetime Reading Plan” and every thrift store worth its salt ...

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 ...

The Great Books and the Aspen Institute’s seminars nourished a vibrant reading community in Aspen. Publication of Great Books of the Western World coincided with the creation of the Institute’s ...

Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World At 3 o'clock one summer morning, a young classics scholar was crashing around in the ...