gateway to the great Books volume 2 Imaginative Literature

by Robert Maynard Hutchins (Editor)

Volume 2: Imaginative Literature I Daniel Defoe, Excerpts from Robinson Crusoe Rudyard Kipling, "Mowgli's Brothers" from The Jungle Book Victor Hugo, "The Battle with the Cannon" from Ninety-Three Guy de Maupassant, "Two Friends" Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers" from Men Without Women Sir Walter Scott, "The Two Drovers" from Chronicles of the Canongate Joseph Conrad, "Youth" Voltaire, Micromégas Oscar Wilde, "The Happy Prince" from The Happy Prince and Other Tales Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "The Masque of the Red Death" Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Charles Dickens, "A Full and Faithful Report of the Memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick" from The Pickwick Papers Nikolai Gogol, "The Overcoat" Samuel Butler, "Customs and Opinions of the Erewhonians" from Erewhon Sherwood Anderson, "I'm a Fool" Anonymous, Aucassin and Nicolette

551 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1963

About the author

Robert Maynard Hutchins (LL.B., Yale Law School, 1925; B.A., Yale University, 1921) was an educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School (1927-1929), and president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago.

While he was president of the University of Chicago, Hutchins implemented wide-ranging and controversial reforms of the University, including the elimination of varsity football. The most far-reaching reforms involved the undergraduate College of the University of Chicago, which was retooled into a novel pedagogical system built on Great Books, Socratic dialogue, comprehensive examinations and early entrance to college. Although the substance of this Hutchins Plan was abandoned by the University shortly after Hutchins resigned in 1951, an adapted version of the program survives at Shimer College in Chicago.

Editor-in-Chief of Great Books of the Western World and Gateway to the Great Books; co-editor of The Great Ideas Today; Chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica (1943-1974).
He was the husband of novelist Maude Hutchins.