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. The concept was ...

How two academics and an ad man crafted a series of unreadable but profitable classics The Great Books of the Western World were ostentatiously launched on April 15, 1952, at a glittering black ...

I refer to Senator William Benton, the University of Chicago, and Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., whose enlightened partnership has brought out the Great Books of the Western World. The set is an ...

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 ...

Publication of Great Books of the Western World coincided with the creation of the Institute’s executive seminars. Walter Paepcke was searching for a way to continue the meaningful discussions that ...

He was 98. The former longtime chairman of the board of editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Adler co-founded the “Great Books of the Western World” series 50 years ago to make classic ...

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 ...

publishing in 1952 a set of 54 classics called “Great Books of the Western World.” This list became the “canon,” as we refer to it today. When it was updated in 1990, four women were added ...

Miller brings The Great Books podcast to a close. National Review’s national correspondent and professor at Hillsdale College, John J. Miller, discusses classic works within the Western literary ...