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Great Books of the Western World
in Humboldt County, California

The Redwood Couch Orchids

Know Thy Shelf!

Our fifth year --
this is what we read in 1998:

  • The Illiad, by Homer
  • Genesis, by Moses
  • Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles
  • The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, by Plutarch (Selections)
  • Twelfth Night, by Shakespeare
  • Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
  • Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (Selections)
  • Billy Budd, by Herman Melville
  • Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
  • The Trial, by Franz Kafka

"To thine own shelf be true"


"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson [ Home ]