How my journey with great books began

Discovering Britannica’s Great Books set

Jim Esch
4 min readJan 7, 2024

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I’d like to share a personal story about how my odyssey with great books got started. There’s actually a few influences on this journey, but here I’ll focus on The Great Books of the Western World set, published by Encyclopedia Britannica.

Those leatherette covers take me back to the 1960's

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