Gateway to the Great Books is a 10-volume series of books originally published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. in 1963 and edited by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins. The set was designed as an introduction to the Great Books of the Western World, published by the same organization and editors in 1952. The set included selections – short stories, plays, essays, letters, and extracts from longer works – by more than one hundred authors. The selections were generally shorter and in some ways simpler than the full-length books included in the Great Books. John Erskine, "The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent" William Clifford, "The Ethics of Belief" William James, "The Will to Believe", "The Sentiment of Rationality" John Dewey, "The Process of Thought" from How We Think Epicurus, "Letter to Herodotus"; "Letter to Menoeceus" Epictetus, The Enchiridion Walter Pater, "The Art of Life" from The Renaissance Plutarch, "Contentment" Cicero, "On Friendship"; "On Old Age" Francis Bacon, "Of Truth"; "Of Death"; "Of Adversity"; "Of Love"; "Of Friendship"; "Of Anger" George Santayana, "Lucretius"; "Goethe's Faust" Henry Adams, "St. Thomas Aquinas" from Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Voltaire, "The Philosophy of Common Sense" John Stuart Mill, "Nature" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"; "Self-Reliance"; "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic" William Hazlitt, "On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth" Thomas Browne, "Immortality" from Urn-Burial (Source: Wikipedia)