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Hillsdale College Great Books Collection
Hillsdale College Great Books Collection

Welcome to the Hillsdale College Great Books Collection

"From Homer to Chaucer, Austen to Dostoevsky, Dickinson to Miller--these works can be mesmerizing, exhilarating, infuriating, and will become like old friends. What I wouldn't give to be able to read them again for the first time--such wonder and joy. And yet even after the hundredth read, I'm always learning something new from these inexhaustible teachers."

- Dr. Justin Jackson, Chair and Professor of English, Hillsdale College

Ranked in the top three of all Great Books Programs in the nation, Hillsdale College is proud to offer a collection of books inspired by our curriculum. Selected in partnership with our English Department, the following titles represent the greatest works of literature taught by our faculty and read by our students.

Each edition delivers best-in-class commentary and translation. Shop with confidence as you engage with the timeless lessons concerning human nature, virtue, self-government, and liberty contained in the pages of these Great Books.

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Candide, Voltaire
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Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled: All for the Best (1759); The Optimist (1762); and Optimism (1947). It...

$21.75
Faust, Goethe
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Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers...

$26.99
Metamorphoses, Ovid
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Ovid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found...

$17.95
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
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The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at...

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Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Published in 1864, Notes from Underground is considered the author's first masterpiece - the book in which he "became" Dostoevsky - and is seen as the source of all his later works. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose acclaimed translations...

$18.75
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to...

$21.99
Genesis: Translation and Commentary, Robert Alter
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"[Here is] the Genesis for our generation and beyond."―Robert Fagles Genesis begins with the making of heaven and earth and all life, and ends with the image of a mummy—Joseph's—in a coffin. In between come many of the primal stories in Western...

$18.95

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