Great Books at Noble Road Library
2019-2020
PRELIMINARY


Great Books Discussion Group - 74th year
7:30 on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month

Meet at the Noble Road Neighborhood Library
2800 Noble Road in Cleveland Heights
(between Monticello and Mayfield)
(216-291-5665)
 CHECK WITH LIBRARY FOR WEATHER CANCELLATIONS 

Questions? E-mail Renee
([email protected])
Website problems? E-mail Maureen
([email protected])



Oct 1
** 		Stowe (1811-98) Dickens (1812-70) Uncle Tom's Cabin
Little Dorrit
 VOTE 
Oct 15
 John Locke
(1632-1704)		 Treatise Concerning Human Understanding (1689) Intro, Bk I,
Bk II ch I �1-5

 NO MEETING NOV 5 DUE TO ELECTION 
Nov 19
*		 Homer
(~800 bc)
The Iliad
(~800 bc) 		Complete
Dec 3 Jonathan Edwards
(1703-1758) 		Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741) Complete sermon

 WINTER BREAK 
Mar 3
** 		George Eliot
(1819-1880) 		The Mill on the Floss
(1860) 		Complete
Mar 17 Charles Darwin
(1809-1882) 		On the Origin of Species (1859)
Diagram for Chapter 4 		Intro, Bks 1-4. conclusion
Apr 7
*		 traditional myth Beowulf
(~800) 		Complete
Apr 21
 Marx (1818-83)
Engels (1820-95) 		The Communist Manifesto (1848)
 Complete
May 5
 William Shakespeare
(1564-1516) 		The Tempest
(~1610) 		Complete
May 19
 ANNUAL RECEPTION 
bring a snack
to share (opt)

* 3-5 weeks since last session
** long break since last session



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Great Books Links
Project Gutenberg (electronic texts of important books)
New York Times Book List (many electronic texts)
Great Books and Classics (sources, incl. on-line)
University of Virginia (many American texts)
Classic Reader (many classic texts, online)
Britannica Great Books List (with links)
Adler & Van Doren Reading List