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Great Books of the Western World
in Humboldt County, California

The Redwood Couch Orchids

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

"To thine own shelf be true"


"Couch Orchids" coined by John Peterson [ Home ]