Our eighth year --
this is what we read in 2001:

• The Birds and Lysistrata, by Aristophanes
• The Symposium by Plato
• The Aeneid, by Virgil
• Beowulf and Gilgamesh
• Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer (selections)
• Othello, by Shakespeare
• Pensees, by Pascal
• Paradise Lost, by Milton
• The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal
• The Kreutzer Sonata, by Tolstoy
• Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather