Clemente Emergency Library : Great Books πŸ“š

Titles for The Clemente Course in the Humanities from the National Emergency Library,
via archive.org, freely available with the use of a virtual library card

Curated by Jim Cocola, Academic Director, Clemente Worcester

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The Clemente Course in the Humanities, a 2014 National Humanities Medalist, serves hundreds of adults around the country each year. Many Clemente students pursue much of their academic work in the nation's public libraries, which are now largely closed. With support from Bard College and state humanities councils including Mass Humanities, Clemente instructors in Worcester and across the nation are looking to provide students and alumni with digital access to materials that can help further their educations. Here are some relevant titles from the National Emergency Library, via archive.org, freely available with the use of a virtual library card.

Great Books πŸ“š

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Mortimer Adler, ed. The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World: Volume I (A-L) (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Mortimer Adler, ed. The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World: Volume II (M-Z) (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 4: Homer (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 6: Herodotus and Thucydides (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 7: Plato (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 8: Aristotle I (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 9: Aristotle II (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 10: Hippocrates and Galen (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 11: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 12: Lucretius, Epicetus, Marcus Aurelius (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 13: Virgil (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 14: Plutarch (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 15: Tacitus (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 16: Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 17: Plotinus (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 18: Augustine (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 19: Thomas Aquinas I (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 20: Thomas Aquinas II (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 21: Dante (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 22: Chaucer (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 23: Machiavelli and Hobbes (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 24: Rabelais (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 25: Montaigne (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 26: Shakespeare I (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 27: Shakespeare II (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 28: Gilbert, Galileo, and Harvey (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 29: Cervantes (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 31: Descartes and Spinoza (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 32: Milton (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 33: Pascal (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 34: Newton and Huygens (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 35: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 36: Swift and Sterne (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 37: Fielding (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 38: Montesquieu and Rousseau (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 39: Adam Smith (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 40: Gibbon I (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 42: Kant (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 43: American State Papers, The Federalist, and J. S. Mill (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 44: Boswell (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 45: Lavoisier, Fourier, and Faraday (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 46: Hegel (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 47: Goethe (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 48: Melville (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 49: Darwin (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 50: Marx and Engels (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 51: Tolstoy (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, ed. Great Books of the Western World: Volume 52: Dostoevsky (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952)

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