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Great Books of the Western World
in Humboldt County, California
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The Redwood Couch Orchids
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Know Thy Shelf!
Our seventh year --
this is what we read in 2000:
- The Odyssey, by Homer
- Antigone, by Sophocles and Bacchae, by Euripides
- The Psalms, from the Bible
- The Analects, by Confucius
- Inferno, from The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
- Video of Henry IV, (one part) by Shakespeare
- Henry IV (both parts), by Shakespeare
- Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
- The Birth of Tragedy, by Nietzsche
- Selected poems by Emily Dickinson
- Two Concepts of Liberty, by Isaiah Berlin
- Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
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"To thine own shelf be true"
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"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson
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