Gateway to the Great Books volume 6 (Record no. 6286)
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
|---|---|
| International Standard Book Number | 37763 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 808.8 Gat |
| Item number | 14 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) | |
| Classification number | 808.8 Gat |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Gateway to the Great Books volume 6 |
| Remainder of title | Man and Society |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Edited by Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler and Clifton Fadiman |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1963 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Chicago, Illinois |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 765 p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Gateway to the great books |
| Number of part/section of a work | 10 volumes |
| Name of part/section of a work | Vol. IV |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Title | v. 6. Man and Society -- Childhood and Youth (from Autobiography) / John Stuart Mill -- Learning the River (from Life on the Mississippi) / Mark Twain -- Characters / La Bruyere -- The Hero as King / Thomas Carlyle -- Thoreau / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Sketch of Abraham Lincoln / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Death of Abraham Lincoln / Walt Whitman -- The Art of Biography / Virginia Woolf -- The March to the Sea (from The Persian Expedition) / Xenophon -- The Character of Socrates (from Memorabilia) / Xenophon -- The Land of Montezuma (from The Conquest of Mexico) / William H. Prescott -- The Power within Us / Haniel Long -- The Eruption of Vesuvius (from Letters) / Pliny The Younger -- The Life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola / Cornelius Tacitus -- Civilization (from History of Civilization in Europe) / Francois Guizot -- The United States in 1800 (from History of the United States of America) / Henry Adams -- Herodotus / John Bagnell Bury -- The Way to Write History / Lucian -- Great Documents : The English Bill of Rights ; Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ; The Virginia Declaration of Rights ; The Declaration of Independence ; Charter of the United Nations ; Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- A Call to Patriots: December 23, 1776 (from The Crisis) / Thomas Paine -- Circular Letter to the Governors of All the States on Disbanding the Army / George Washington -- The Farewell Address / George Washington -- The Virginia Constitution (from Notes on Virginia) / Thomas Jefferson -- First Inaugural Address / Thomas Jefferson -- Biographical Sketches / Thomas Jefferson -- A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America / Benjamin Franklin -- Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania / Benjamin Franklin -- The Making of Americans (from Letters from an American Farmer) / Jean De Crevecoeur -- Observations on American Life and Government (from Democracy in America) / Alexis De Tocqueville -- Civil Disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- A Plea for Captain John Brown / Henry David Thoreau -- Address at Cooper Institute / Abraham Lincoln -- First Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Letter to Horace Greeley / Abraham Lincoln -- Meditation on the Divine Will / Abraham Lincoln -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Second Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Last Public Address / Abraham Lincoln. Man and Society -- Francis Bacon -- v. 7. Of Youth and Age / Francis Bacon -- Of Parents and Children / Francis Bacon -- Of Marriage and Single Life / Francis Bacon -- Of Great Place / Francis Bacon -- Of Seditions and Troubles / Francis Bacon -- Of Custom and Education / Francis Bacon -- Of Followers and Friends / Francis Bacon -- Of Usury / Francis Bacon -- Of Riches / Jonathan Swift -- Resolutions when I Come to Be Old / Jonathan Swift -- An Essay on Modern Education / Jonathan Swift -- A Meditation upon a Broomstick / Jonathan Swift -- A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country / David Hume -- Of Refinement in the Arts / David Hume -- Of Money / David Hume -- Of the Balance of Trade / David Hume -- Of Taxes / David Hume -- Of the Study of History / Plutarch -- Of Bashfulness / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Lantern-Bearers / John Ruskin -- An Idealist's Arraignment of the Age / William James -- On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings / William James -- The Energies of Men / William James -- Great Men and Their Environment / Arthur Schopenhauer -- On Education / Michael Faraday -- Observations on Mental Education / Edmund Burke -- Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol / John C. Calhoun -- The Concurrent Majority (from A Disquisition on Government) / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Machiavelli / Voltaire -- English Men and Ideas (from Letters on the English) / Dante Alighieri -- On World Government (from De Monarchia) / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe / Immanuel Kant -- Perpetual Peace / Karl Von Clausewitz -- What Is War? / Thomas Robert Malthus. The Principle of Population (from Population: The First Essay) / |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | 37763 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Source of heading or term | Literature Collections. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Relator code | Ed. |
| Personal name | Hutchins, Robert M. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Relator code | Ed. |
| Personal name | Adler, Mortimer J. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Relator code | Ed. |
| Personal name | Fadiman, Clifton |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | 800 - 899 |
| Lost status | Permanent Location | Barcode | Date last seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | 37763 | 2007-07-31 |