GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, COMPLETE 54 VOLUME SET, 1982 PRINTING"The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, collaborated with Mortimer Adler to develop a course generally aimed at businesspeople for the purpose of filling the gaps in their liberal education; to render the reader as an intellectually rounded man or woman familiar with the Great Books of the Western canon, and knowledgeable of the great ideas developed in the course