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The Great Books (second edition) Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in 54 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must be ...
Author. Mortimer J. Adler. Publication date. 1940. How to Read a Book is a book by the American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler. Originally published in 1940, it was heavily revised for a 1972 edition, co-authored by Adler with editor Charles Van Doren. The 1972 revision gives guidelines for critically reading good and great books of any tradition.
The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot. [ 1][ 2] Eliot believed that a careful reading of the series and following the eleven ...
This is a selected list of authors and works listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.The Index was discontinued on June 14, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. [1] [2]A complete list of the authors and writings present in the subsequent editions of the index are listed in J. Martinez de Bujanda, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1600–1966, Geneva, 2002.
Jack Reacher is a series of novels, novellas and short stories by British author Jim Grant under the pen name Lee Child. [ 1] As of January 2022, the series includes 28 books and a short story collection. [ 2] The book series chronicles the adventures of Jack Reacher, a former major in the United States Army Military Police Corps now a drifter ...
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story, 2016 novel by American author Nora Raleigh Baskin. Saturday, 2005 "post 9/11" novel by English writer Ian McEwan. The Submission, 2011 novel by Amy Waldman. Sunrise Over Fallujah, 2008 novel by American author Walter Dean Myers. Towers Falling, 2016 novel by American author Jewell Parker Rhodes.
List of books by year of publication. List of children's books made into feature films. List of Christian novels. List of comic books. Lists of dictionaries. Lists of encyclopedias. List of fantasy novels. List of gay male teen novels. List of Glagolitic books.
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...