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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 fourth year --
this is what we read in 1997:
- The Story of Philosophy (Ch.10-11), by Will Durant
- Book of Job, from the Bible
- Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus and Prometheus Unbound, by P.B. Shelley
- Heroides, by Ovid
- A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
- Perceval, by Chretien de Troyes and He, by Robert Johnson
- Poetics, by Aristotle and The Tempest, by Shakespeare
- Selected Poems, by W.B. Yeats
- Gödel, Escher, Back (Selections), by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Mysterious Stranger, by Mark Twain
- Ethics, by Aristotle and Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
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"To thine own shelf be true"
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"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson
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