Great Books at Noble Road Library
2000-2001
Sept 19
James Joyce
1882-1941
Ulysses
1918
all
Oct 3
Thucydides
~ 471-400 BCE
History of the Peloponnesian War
Book I
Oct 17 *
Euripides
~ 484-406 BCE
Women of Troy
all
Nov 7
Euclid
~ 365-300 BCE
Elements of Geometry
Book I
(excl. notes)
Nov 21
Bible
Book of Job
all
Dec 5
Beowulf
- Heaney transl.
(
more info
) ~ 1000
all
Jan 16 *
Charles Dickens
1812-1870
A Tale of Two Cities
1859
all
Feb 6
Shakespeare
1564-1616
Julius Caesar
~ 1599
all
Feb 20
Leibniz
1646-1716
Discourse on Metaphysics
1686
all
Mar 6
Constitution of the United States
1787
all
Mar 20
Hegel
1770-1831
Philosophy of History
1837
Introduction (by Hegel - 100 pages)
Apr 3
Lytton Strachey
1880-1932
The Eminent Victorians
1918
Cardinal Manning & General Gordon
Apr 17
Eugene O'Neill
1888-1953
Mourning Becomes Electra
1931
all
May 1
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