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Great Books of the Western World
in Humboldt County, California

The Redwood Couch Orchids

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

"To thine own shelf be true"


"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson [ Home ]