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Great Books of the Western World
in Humboldt County, California

The Redwood Couch Orchids

Know Thy Shelf!

Our eleventh year --
this is what we read in 2004:

  • Works and Days by Hesiod
  • Rhetoric by Aristotle
  • Satires by Juvenal
  • Confessions by Saint Augustine
  • Selections from Petrarch
  • Ulysses by James Joyce (on Bloomsday!)
  • As You Like It by William Shakespeare
  • Emile by Rousseau
  • Autobiography by Frederick Douglass
  • The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (père)
  • Twilight of the Idols/Anti-Christ by Nietzsche

"To thine own shelf be true"


"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson [ Home ]