Great Books at Noble Road Library
2011-2012


Sept 20
Dostoevsky
1821-1881
The Idiot
1868
Complete
Oct 4 John Locke
1632-1704
2nd Treatise of Civil Government
1689
Chs 1-9
Oct 18 Plato
~427-347 bc
The Republic
~380 bc
Bks III-IV
Nov 1 Thomas Paine
1737-1809
Common Sense
1776
Complete
Nov 15
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John Cheever
1912-1982
The Stories of John Cheever
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1st 12 stories
Vintage Ed.
Dec 6 Hippocrates
460-370 bc
The Oath, The Law, On Ancient Medicine, The Surgery,
On the Sacred Disease, On Injuries of the Head

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Jan 17
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Thomas Malory
1405-1471
Le Morte d'Arthur
1485
Vol. I
Feb 7 George Berkeley
1685-1753
Principles of Human Knowledge
1710
Complete
Feb 21 Shakespeare
1564-1616
Much Ado about Nothing
1599
Complete
Mar 6 Thomas Hobbes
1588-1679
Leviathan
1651
Chs 13-18
Mar 20 BT Washington
1856-1915
Up from Slavery
1901
Complete
Apr 3 Alfred Whitehead
1861-1947
Science and the Modern World
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Lectures
1, 12, 13
Apr 17 Henry James
1843-1916
The Turn of the Screw
1898
Complete
May 1 Oliver Goldsmith
1739-1774
She Stoops to Conquer
1773
Complete