Great Books of the Western World

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:book_series
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Western_canon
humanities education
intellectual tradition
Great Books movement
gptkbp:available_in libraries
bookstores
gptkbp:cultural_impact inspired similar collections
influenced curriculum
promoted liberal education
sparked debates on education
gptkbp:editor gptkb:Robert_Maynard_Hutchins
gptkbp:first_published gptkb:1952
gptkbp:format gptkb:print
digital
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Great Books of the Western World
gptkbp:includes gptkb:War_and_Peace
gptkb:The_Aeneid
gptkb:The_Divine_Comedy
gptkb:Moby-Dick
gptkb:The_Iliad
gptkb:The_Odyssey
gptkb:Hamlet
gptkb:The_Federalist_Papers
gptkb:Paradise_Lost
gptkb:The_Republic
gptkbp:influenced_by Western philosophy
Classical literature
Renaissance literature
Enlightenment literature
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:notable_authors gptkb:J._D._Salinger
gptkb:Dame_Margaret_Atwood
gptkb:Chinua_Achebe
gptkb:Immanuel_Kant
gptkb:Leo_Tolstoy
gptkb:Toni_Morrison
gptkb:Virgil
gptkb:Alice_Walker
gptkb:Dante_Alighieri
gptkb:Franz_Kafka
gptkb:Mark_Twain
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkb:Charles_Dickens
gptkb:Friedrich_Nietzsche
gptkb:Fyodor_Dostoevsky
gptkb:George_Orwell
gptkb:Herman_Melville
gptkb:James_Madison
gptkb:John_Milton
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkb:Gabriel_García_Márquez
gptkb:Jane_Austen
gptkb:Harper_Lee
gptkb:Aristotle
gptkb:Homer
gptkb:Plato
gptkbp:number_of_volumes 54
gptkbp:published_by gptkb:Encyclopaedia_Britannica
gptkbp:subject Western literature
gptkbp:target_audience gptkb:scholars
gptkb:students
general readers
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Great_Books_program
gptkb:Robert_Maynard_Hutchins
gptkb:Mortimer_J._Adler
gptkb:the_Great_Books_Foundation
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7