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2009/2010 Great Books Program
Belvedere-Tiburon (Rex Fink Chapter)

Meetings - 2nd Tuesday, Founders Room, Belvedere-Tiburon Library, 1:30-3pm

 



This session will feature selections from the
Great Books Foundation's Great Conversations v. 3

Future discussions include:

Sept. 8, 2009
Andrew Shawn Greer: The Story of a Marriage

Oct. 15, 2009
Geoffrey Chaucer: The  Pardoners Tale
David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Nov. 10, 2009
Percy Bysshe Shelly: A Defence of Poetry (selection)
Honore de Balzac: The Unknown Masterpiece

Dec. 8, 2009
Leo Tolstoy: Second Epilogue to War and Peace

Jan. 12, 2010
Rudyard Kipling: The Man Who Would Be King

Feb.  9, 2010
Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of a Plot

March 9, 2010
Stephen Crane: The Open Boat
Sherwood Anderson: Death in the Woods

April 13, 2010
Jorge Luis Borges: The Garden of Forking Paths
Simone De Beauvoir: Introduction to the Second Sex  
Grace Paley: An Interest in Life

May 11, 2010
Wislowa Szymborska: Selected Poems
Michel Foucault: The Body of the Condemned

June 8, 2010
Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies

Coffee and treats following the June 8th meeting--Place to be decided

 

For questions or information call
Phyllis Trieber, 435-1452

The Great Books Foundation:
1-800-222-5870

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