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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 fourteenth year --
this is what we read in 2007:
- Book VII of The Republic and Symposium by Plato
- Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
- From the Bible: Book of Esther and Book of Ruth
- On the Gods by Cicero
- Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
- Le Cid by Corneille
- Books 1 and 2 of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
- The Rape of the Lock by Pope and
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
- Selections from Wordsworth
- Black Elk Speaks
- Jane Eyre by Charlote Brontë
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"To thine own shelf be true"
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"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson
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