Great Books at Noble Road Library
2017-2018


Oct 3
**
Herman Melville
(1819-1891)
Moby Dick; or, The Whale
(1851)
Complete
Oct 17
Marcus Aurelius
(121-180)
Meditations
(before 850)
Complete
Nov 7
*
Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469-1527)
The Prince
(1532)
Complete
Nov 21 Christopher Marlowe
(1564-1593)
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1604) Complete
Dec 5 Thomas Malthus
(1766-1834)
An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) Complete

 WINTER BREAK 
Mar 6
**
Sophocles
(~496-405 BC)
The Theban Plays
Oedipus the King (430 BC)
Oedipus at Colonus (405 BC)
Antigone (441 BC)
Complete
Mar 20 Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (1883) First Part
(Prologue and I-XXII)
Apr 3
Various Constitution of the United States (1789)
through Art VII
(no amendments)
Apr 17
Nathanial Hawthorne
(1804-1864)
House of the Seven Gables (1851) Complete