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Authors represented in Drew's 60-volume Great Books of the Western World: Second Edition.
Mortimer J. AdlerHomerAeschylusSophoclesEuripidesAristophanesHerodotusThucydidesPlatoAristotleHippocratesGalenEuclidArchimedesNicomachusLucretiusEpictetusMarcus AureliusPlotinusVirgilPlutarchTacitusPtolemyNicolaus CopernicusJohannes KeplerSaint AugustineThomas AquinasDante AlighieriGeoffrey ChaucerJohn CalvinNiccolò MachiavelliThomas HobbesFrançois RabelaisDesiderius ErasmusMichel de MontaigneWilliam ShakespeareWilliam GilbertGalileo GalileiWilliam HarveyMiguel de CervantesFrancis BaconRené DescartesBenedict de SpinozaJohn MiltonBlaise PascalMolièreJean RacineIsaac NewtonChristiaan HuygensJohn LockeGeorge BerkeleyDavid HumeJonathan SwiftVoltaireDenis DiderotMontesquieuJean-Jacques RousseauAdam SmithEdward GibbonImmanuel KantUnited StatesAlexander HamiltonJames MadisonJohn JayJohn Stuart MillJames BoswellAntoine LavoisierMichael FaradayGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelSøren KierkegaardFriedrich NietzscheAlexis de TocquevilleJohann Wolfgang von GoetheHonoré de BalzacJane AustenGeorge EliotCharles DickensHerman MelvilleMark TwainCharles DarwinKarl MarxFriedrich EngelsLeo TolstoyFyodor DostoevskyHenrik IbsenWilliam JamesSigmund FreudHenri BergsonJohn DeweyAlfred North WhiteheadBertrand RussellMartin HeideggerLudwig WittgensteinKarl BarthHenri PoincaréMax PlanckAlbert EinsteinArthur EddingtonNiels BohrG. H. HardyWerner HeisenbergErwin SchrödingerTheodosius DobzhanskyC. H. WaddingtonThorstein VeblenR. H. TawneyJohn Maynard KeynesJames George FrazerMax WeberJohan HuizingaClaude Lévi-StraussHenry JamesGeorge Bernard ShawJoseph ConradAnton ChekhovLuigi PirandelloMarcel ProustWilla CatherThomas MannJames JoyceVirginia WoolfFranz KafkaD. H. LawrenceT. S. EliotEugene O’NeillF. Scott FitzgeraldWilliam FaulknerBertolt BrechtErnest HemingwayGeorge OrwellSamuel Beckett