Great Books at Noble Road Library
2011-2012



Great Books Discussion Group - 66th 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)
 EXCEPT WHERE NOTED BELOW 
due to construction at Noble

Questions? E-mail Renee Paolino
(R59P@aol.com)



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
Bks III-IV
10/18 MEET AT
UH LIBRARY
13866 CEDAR
Nov 1 Thomas Paine
1737-1809
Common Sense
Complete
11/1 MEET AT
UH LIBRARY
13866 CEDAR
Nov 15
*
John Cheever
1912-1982
The Stories of John Cheever
stories 1-12, Vintage ed.
click here for list of stories
11/15 MEET AT
UH LIBRARY
13866 CEDAR
Dec 6 Hippocrates
460-370 bc
The Oath, The Law, On Ancient Medicine, The Surgery,
On the Sacred Disease, On Injuries of the Head

or click here to download the reading
Jan 17
*
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
or click to download reading
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

* 3 weeks until the next session



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