Great Books at Noble Road Library
1999-2000



Sept 21 W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
1915		 all
Oct 5 Aeschylus
525-456 BCE		 Prometheus Bound
~ 430 BCE		 all
Oct 19 Herodotus
~ 484-425 BCE		 The Histories
446 BCE		 Book 1
Nov 2 Marcus Aurelius
121-180 BCE		 Meditations
169 CE		 all
Nov 16 * Geoffrey Chaucer
~ 1343-1400		 The Canterbury Tales
~ 1485		 General Prologue, Knight's Tale, Wife of Bath's Prolg & Tale, Miller's Prolg & Tale
Dec 7 Montaigne
1533-1592		 Essays
1580-95		 Book 1, Essays 1-19
Jan 18 Shakespeare
1564-1616		 Richard II
1595?		 all
Feb 1 Descartes
1546-1650		 Discourse on Method
1637		 all
Feb 15 * Rousseau
1712-1792		 The Social Contract
1762		 Bk III Ch 7 - end
Mar 7 John Cardinal Newman
1801-1890		 Apologia Pro Vita Sua
1864		 Chs. 1-2
Mar 21 Nietzche
1844-1900		 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
1891		 First Part (include Zarathustra's Prologue)
Apr 4 Lytton Strachey
1880-1932		 The Eminent Victorians
1918		 Dr. Arnold
Florence Nightengale
Apr 18 John M. Synge
1871-1909		 Playboy of the Western World
1907
May 2 Bring a reading of your choice        directions to this meeting

* 3 weeks until the next session




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