In the spirit of the many year-in-review articles we see at this time of the year, permit me to offer a 2012 year-in-review of the Huntington Public Library Great Books Reading and Discussion Group:
January: "Epic of Gilgamesh"
February: "Prometheus Bound," by Aeschylus
March: "Of Friendship" and "Of Solitude" by Montaigne
April: "Pensées," by Pascal
May: "Self-Reliance," by Emerson
June" "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," by Whitman
September: "Democracy in America," by de Tocqueville
October: "An Enemy of the People," by Ibsen
November: "The Value of Science," by Poincaré
In July and August we experimented with the themes of Money and Sex as found in the readings in the Vital Ideas anthologies (click here to see link).
Here's to reading MORE Great Literature in '13. Happy New Year!!!
