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Great Books of the Western World
in Humboldt County, California

The Redwood Couch Orchids

Know Thy Shelf!

Our thirteenth year --
this is what we read in 2006:

  • Books 1 and 2 of Anabasis by Xenophon and Ajax by Sophocles
  • The Golden Ass by Apuleius
  • From the Bible: Daniel and Revelations
  • Selections from A Thousand and One Nights
  • The Romance of Tristan and Iseult as retold by Joseph Bedier
  • The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
  • Selections from La Rochefoucauld and Madame de Stael
  • Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft and Rights of Man by Tom Paine
  • The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
  • The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Sea Wolf by Jack London

"To thine own shelf be true"


"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson [ Home ]