Great Books at Noble Road Library
2016-2017


Oct 4
**
Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910)
War and Peace
(1869)
Complete
Oct 18 Plato
(~427-347 BC)
Meno
(~400 BC)
Complete
Nov 1 Chaucer
(1343-1400)
Canterbury Tales (1385)
(modern translation of Canterbury Tales)
(download MS Word file of reading)
General Prologue,
Knight's Tale,
Mller's Prologue & Tale,
Wife of Bath's Prologue & Tale
Nov 15
John Donne
(1572-1631)
Poetry of John Donne
(download MS Word file of reading)
La Corona (1610)
Holy Sonnets (written 1609-1617, published 1633)
Meditation 17 from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Dec 6
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Herodotus
(484-425 BC)
The Histories
(440 BC)
Books II and III

 WINTER BREAK 
Mar 7
**
Henry Fielding
(1707-1754)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
(1749)
Complete
Mar 21 James W Johnson
(1871-1938)
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
(online audio reading of the book)
(1912)
Complete
Apr 4
Lao Tzu
(died 531 BC)
Tao Te Ching
(6th century BC)
Complete
Apr 18
Baruch Spinoza
(1632-1677)
A Theologico-Political Treatise
- Part I
(1669)
Complete Part I
(Preface & Chs I-V)

* 3 weeks since last session
** long break since last session