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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 sixth year --
this is what we read in 1999:
- Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
- Oresteia (Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides) by Aeschylus
- The Book of Isaiah, from the Bible
- Metamorphoses, by Ovid (selections)
- Selected Works, by Hildegard of Bingen
- King Lear, by Shakespeare and Ran, film by Kurosawa
- Common Sense, by Tom Paine and Civil Disobedience, by Thoreau
- Poetry of the Romantic Period (selections)
- Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov
- Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann and Phaedrus, by Plato
- To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
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"To thine own shelf be true"
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"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson
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