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Great Books of the Western World
in Humboldt County, California

The Redwood Couch Orchids

Know Thy Shelf!

Our second year --
this is what we read in 1995:

  • The Story of Philosophy (Ch.7-9), by Will Durant
  • The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
  • Faust, Part I, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
  • The Story of Philosophy (Ch.4-6), by Will Durant
  • The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
  • The Lives of a Cell, by Lewis Thomas
  • The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

"To thine own shelf be true"


"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson [ Home ]