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    The Great conversation : a reader's guide to great books of the western world / [Mortimer J. Adler, editor in chief].

    Contributor(s): Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001Material type: TextTextSeries: Great books of the Western world: Publisher: Chicago ; London : Encyclopaedia Britannica International, 1990Edition: 2nd edDescription: 100 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 x 30 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0852295316; 9780852295311Report number: 90080213Subject(s): Books and reading | Books and reading | LiteratureDDC classification: 809 LOC classification: Z1005 | .G73 2006
    Contents:
    Of Great Books of the Western World -- A chronology of great authors -- The great conversation revisted / Mortimer J. Adler -- The contributions of the 20th century / Clifton Fadiman -- The great conversation (excerpts), / Robert M. Hutchins -- Suggestions to readers of the Great Books -- The author-to-author index -- The author-to-idea index -- Ten years of reading in the Great Books -- The great ideas.
    Summary: Discusses the selection of works for and purpose of the set "Great Books of the Western World" and provides tools for use with the set, including author-to-idea and idea-to-author indexes and a ten-year reading list.
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    Originally published: 1952.

    Includes index.

    Discusses the selection of works for and purpose of the set "Great Books of the Western World" and provides tools for use with the set, including author-to-idea and idea-to-author indexes and a ten-year reading list.

    Of Great Books of the Western World -- A chronology of great authors -- The great conversation revisted / Mortimer J. Adler -- The contributions of the 20th century / Clifton Fadiman -- The great conversation (excerpts), / Robert M. Hutchins -- Suggestions to readers of the Great Books -- The author-to-author index -- The author-to-idea index -- Ten years of reading in the Great Books -- The great ideas.

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