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Great books : first year readings / Great Books Foundation.
LIBRA AC1 .G76 v.1,3,6-16
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Collections.
- Literature.
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Collections.
- Physical Description:
- 16 volumes ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Great Books Foundation, [1948]
- Contents:
- v.1. The Declaration of independence; Bible selections.
- v.2. Plato. Apology: Crito; Republic I-II.
- v.3. Thucydides. Historyof the Peloponnesian war.
- v.4. Aristophanes. Lysistrata; The birds; The clouds.
- v.5. Aristoteles. Ethics, book I; Politics, book I.
- v.6. Plutarch. Lycurgus, Numa and Comparison, Alexander and Caesar.
- v.7. St. Augustine. Confessions, books I-VIII.
- v.8. St. Thomas. Treatise on law: Summa theologica, books I-II, QQ 90-07.
- v.9. Machiavelli. The prince.
- v.10. Monta.
- v.12. Locke. Of civil government; second essay.
- v.13. Rousseau. The social contract, books I-and II.
- v.14. Federalist papers; The federal Constitution.
- v.15. Smith. The wealth of nations, book I, chapters 1-9.
- v.16. Marx. Communist manifesto.
- Notes:
- Issued in case.
- Collective title from case.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Myron Portenar and Anne Jaffe Portenar.
- OCLC:
- 1387483
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