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Great Books Program
Belvedere-Tiburon (Rex Fink Chapter)
Meetings - 2nd Tuesday, Founders Room, Belvedere-Tiburon Library
1:30-3pm
no meetings in July and August.
For questions or further information, please contact
Facilitator / Leader Phyllis Trieber, 415-435-1452 or phyllistrieber@comcast.net
Honorary Leader: Chuck Auerbach.
Co-Facilitators: David Ware and Alice Shelton.
Selections are alternated monthly from two books published by The Great Books Foundation: Great Conversations 4 and The 7 Deadly Sins.
** Books can be ordered through The Great Books Foundation, 800-222-5870.
The 2011- 2012 schedule is:
June 14, 2011 - Great Conversations 4
Henry David Thoreau: “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”
(from Walden)
This meeting will be held after a luncheon starting at 11:30am at Tiburon Lodge to honor Chuck Auerbach. For more information please call or email Phyllis Trieber at the information above. After the luncheon, we will meet as always in the Belvedere-Tiburon Library Founder's Room at 1:30 p.m.
July 2011
No meeting
August 2011
No meeting
September 13, 2011 – Summer Reading Discussion
Participants will share selections of their choice by Edith Wharton.
October 11, 2011 - The 7 Deadly Sins
Rudyard Kipling: “Mary Postgate”
November 8, 2011 - Great Conversations 4
Matthew Arnold: “Culture and Anarchy” (selection)
December 13, 2011 - The 7 Deadly Sins
Margaret Atwood: “Hairball”
January 10, 2012 - Great Conversations 4
George Bernard Shaw: “Major Barbara”
February 14, 2012 - The 7 Deadly Sins
Anton Chekhov: “The House with the Mezzanine”
March 13, 2012 - Great Conversations 4
Shirley Jackson: “The Lottery”
April 10, 2012 - The 7 Deadly Sins
Bobbie Ann Mason: “Shiloh”
May 8, 2012 - Great Conversations 4
Immanuel Kant: “To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch”
June 12, 2012 - The 7 Deadly Sins
D. H. Lawrence: “The Rocking-Horse Winner”
July 2012
No meeting
August 2012
No meeting
** This year, the group has chosen to read selections in thematic (rather than chronologic) order. The order of selections from Great Conversations 4 follows the “Connecting Themes”, as presented on page 433, beginning with “The Individual and Civic Virtue”. The selections from The 7 Deadly Sins are sequential, beginning with “Envy”.