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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 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
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"To thine own shelf be true"
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"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson
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