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Great Books of the Western World
in Humboldt County, California

The Redwood Couch Orchids

Know Thy Shelf!

Our twelfth year --
this is what we read in 2005:

  • Selections from Herodotus and Thucydides
  • Hippolytus by Euripides and Phaedra by Racine
  • Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
  • Selections from Rumi
  • Selections from Julian of Norwich
  • In Praise of Folly by Erasmus
  • The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
  • The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson
  • Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
  • I and Thou by Martin Buber
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

"To thine own shelf be true"


"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson [ Home ]