Nashville Great Books Discussion Group

Genre Index of Reading Selections

Economics Smith Concerning the Division of Labor     Introduction to Great Books 1
Economics Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Economics Smith Wealth of Nations 1988 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
History Thucydides The Melian Dialogue     Introduction to Great Books 1
History Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1997 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
History Plutarch Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans 1997 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
History Tacitus the Annals 1997 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
History Plutarch Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans 1996 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
History Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1989 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
History Herodotus Persian Wars, the 1988 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
History Thucydides History of Peloponnesian War 1988 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Literature Chekhov Rothschild's Fiddle     Introduction to Great Books 1
Literature Conrad An Outpost of Progress     Introduction to Great Books 1
Literature Gorky Chelkash     Introduction to Great Books 1
Literature O'Connor Everything that Rises Must Converge     Introduction to Great Books 1
Literature Euripides Trojan Women, the 2009 Spring  
Literature Euripides Hippolytus 2009 Spring  
Literature Homer Iliad 2009 Winter  
Literature Racine Phaedra 2009 Spring  
Literature Homer The Odyssey 2008 Fall  
Literature Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra 2008 Winter  
Literature Tolstoy War and Peace 2008 Winter  
Literature Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Anonymous The Epic of Gilgamesh 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Bellow Seize the Day 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Conrad The Secret Sharer 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Emerson Self-Reliance 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Ibsen An Enemy of the People 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Montaigne Of Solitude 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Montaigne Of Friendship 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Munro Boys and Girls 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Olsen Tell Me a Riddle 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Pascal Pensées 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Shakespeare The Tempest 2007 Fall  
Literature Shakespeare Richard III 2007 Fall  
Literature Whitman Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Literature Achebe Things Fall Apart 2006 Summer Order and Chaos
Literature Anonymous Bhagvad-Gita 2006 Summer Order and Chaos
Literature Bishop The Armadillo 2006 Summer Order and Chaos
Literature Bulgakov The Master and Margarita 2006 Summer Order and Chaos
Literature Chekhov The Sea Gull 2006 Fall  
Literature Chekhov Uncle Vanya 2006 Fall  
Literature Chekhov The Three Sisters 2006 Fall  
Literature Chekhov The Cherry Orchard 2006 Fall  
Literature Euripides The Baccae 2006 Summer Order and Chaos
Literature Frost Design 2006 Summer Order and Chaos
Literature Gogol The Overcoat 2006 Summer Order and Chaos
Literature Milton Paradise Lost 2006 Spring  
Literature O'Connor Everything that Rises Must Converge 2006 Summer Order and Chaos
Literature Shaw Saint Joan 2006 Fall  
Literature Sophocles Ajax / Electra 2006 Winter  
Literature Sophocles Philoctetes 2006 Winter  
Literature Sophocles The Women of Trachis 2006 Winter  
Literature Sophocles Oedipus the King 2006 Winter  
Literature Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 2006 Winter  
Literature Sophocles Antigone 2006 Winter  
Literature Von Rezzori Troth 2006 Summer Order and Chaos
Literature Yeats Lapis Lazuli 2006 Summer Order and Chaos
Literature Brooks To Be in Love 2005 Summer Love and Marriage
Literature Corso Marriage 2005 Summer Love and Marriage
Literature Mishima Patriotism 2005 Summer Love and Marriage
Literature Nabokov Lolita 2005 Summer Love and Marriage
Literature Plath The Applicant 2005 Summer Love and Marriage
Literature Shakespeare Sonnet 116 2005 Summer Love and Marriage
Literature Singer The Spinoza of Market Street 2005 Summer Love and Marriage
Literature Skvorecky Emoke 2005 Summer Love and Marriage
Literature Steel Tom-Tit-Tot and Caporushes 2005 Summer Love and Marriage
Literature Thoreau Walden 2005 Fall  
Literature Thoreau Walden 2005 Fall complete work
Literature Woolf To the Lighthouse 2005 Summer  
Literature Chekhov In Exile 2004 Winter Introduction to Great Books 2
Literature Dillard An American Childhood 2004 Summer Living with the Past
Literature Dinesen Sorrow-Acre 2004 Winter Introduction to Great Books 2
Literature Dostoevsky Brothers Karamazov 2004 Fall  
Literature Faulkner Barn Burning 2004 Winter Introduction to Great Books 2
Literature Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude 2004 Summer Living with the Past
Literature Gogol The Overcoat 2004 Winter Introduction to Great Books 2
Literature Grossman Momik 2004 Summer Living with the Past
Literature Herling the Island 2004 Summer Living with the Past
Literature Lowell For the Union Dead 2004 Summer Living with the Past
Literature Morrison Song of Solomon 2004 Summer Living with the Past
Literature Proust Overture (from Remembrance of Things Past, v.1) 2004 Summer Living with the Past
Literature Rich Diving into the Wreck 2004 Summer Living with the Past
Literature Sophocles Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone 2004 Fall  
Literature Tolstoy After the Ball 2004 Winter Introduction to Great Books 2
Literature Wordsworth Ode: Intimat ions of Immortality 2004 Summer Living with the Past
Literature Shakespeare King Henry the Fourth 1998 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
Literature Montaigne The Essays 1997 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
Literature Shakespeare Hamlet 1997 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
Literature Swift Gulliver's Travels 1997 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
Literature Sophocles Oedipus the King, Antigone 1996 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
Literature Adams Education of Henry Adams, the 1991 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Literature Dante The Inferno 1991 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Literature Shakespeare King Lear 1991 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Literature Diderot Rameau's Nephew 1990 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Literature Flaubert A Simple Heart 1990 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Literature Goethe Faust, Part One 1990 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Literature Gogol Overcoat, the 1990 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Literature Montaigne Of Experience 1990 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Literature Shakespeare Tempest, the 1990 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Literature Shaw Caesar and Cleopatra 1990 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Literature Sophocles Oedipus the King 1990 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Literature Aeschylus Agamemnon 1989 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Literature Chaucer Canterbury Tales 1989 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Literature Euripides Medea 1989 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Literature Homer Iliad, the 1989 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Literature James Beast in the Jungle, the 1989 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Literature Moliere Misanthrope, the 1989 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Literature Tolstoy Death of Ivan Ilych, the 1989 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Literature Chekhov Uncle Vanya 1988 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Literature Melville Billy Budd, Sailor 1988 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Literature Shakespeare Hamlet 1988 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Literature Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra 1988 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Literature Shakespeare Othello 1987, 2005 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Literature Sophocles Antigone 1987, 2005 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Literature Dostoevsky Notes from the Underground 1987 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Literature Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis 1987 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Literature Swift Gulliver's Travels 1987 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Literature Chekhov Rothschild's Fiddle 1986, 2005 Fall, Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Literature Conrad Heart of Darkness 1986, 2005 Fall, Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
philosophy Aristotle Politics     Introduction to Great Books 2
philosophy Fry An Essay in Aesthetics     Introduction to Great Books 1
philosophy Hobbes Of Commonwealth     Introduction to Great Books 2
philosophy Ortega y Gasset On Studying     Introduction to Great Books 1
Philosophy Nietzsche, Friedrich Beyond Good and Evil 2009 Spring  
Philosophy Lucretius On the Nature of the Universe 2007 Fall  
Philosophy Mill On Liberty 2007 Fall  
Philosophy James Pragmatism 2006 Fall  
Philosophy Kierkegaard Either / Or 2005 Summer Love and Marriage
Philosophy Plato The Republic 2005 Fall  
Philosophy Plato The Republic 2005 Fall complete work
Philosophy Plato Symposium 2005 Summer Love and Marriage
philosophy Berlin Equality 2004 Winter Introduction to Great Books 2
philosophy James Habit 2004 Winter Introduction to Great Books 2
Philosophy Locke Of Civil Government 2004 Winter Introduction to Great Books, v.2
Philosophy Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics 2002 Fall complete work
philosophy Hegel Philosophy of Right 1998 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
philosophy Hobbes Leviathan 1998 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
philosophy J.S. Mill Representative Government 1998 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
philosophy J.S. Mill On Liberty 1998 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
philosophy Kant Science of Right, the 1998 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
philosophy Montesquieu Spirit of the Laws, the 1998 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
philosophy Rousseau the Social Contract 1998 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
philosophy Aristotle Politics 1997 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
philosophy Locke Concerning Civil Government 1997 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
philosophy Plato The Republic 1997 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
philosophy Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 1996 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
philosophy Aristotle Politics 1996 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
Philosophy Plato The Apology and Crito 1996 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
philosophy Plato The Republic 1996 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
Philosophy Aristotle On Tragedy 1991 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Philosophy Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France 1991 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Philosophy Hume Of Personal Identity 1991 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Philosophy Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra 1991 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Philosophy Plato Republic, the 1991 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Philosophy Hamilton, Jay, Madison The Federalist 1990 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Philosophy Kant First Principles of Morals 1990 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Philosophy Plato Symposium 1990 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Philosophy Machiavelli Prince, the 1989 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Philosophy Mill Utilitarianism 1989 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Philosophy Montesquieu Principles of Government 1989 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Philosophy Schopenhauer Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature, the 1989 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Philosophy Dewey Habits and Will 1988 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Philosophy Kierkegaard Knight of Faith, the 1988 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Philosophy Mill On Liberty 1988 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Philosophy Hume Of Justice and Injustice 1987, 2005 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Philosophy Simmel Individual Freedom 1987, 2005 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Philosophy Tocqueville Power of the Majority, the 1987, 2005 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Philosophy Aristotle Politics 1987 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Philosophy Dewey Virtues, the 1987 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Philosophy Hobbes Origin of Government 1987 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Philosophy Locke Of Civil Government 1987 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Philosophy Plato Crito, the 1987 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Philosophy Thoreau Civil Disobedience 1987 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Philosophy Aristotle On Happiness 1986, 2005 Fall, Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Philosophy Kant Conscience 1986, 2005 Fall, Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Philosophy Marx Alienated Labour 1986, 2005 Fall, Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Philosophy Plato Apology, the 1986, 2005 Fall, Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Philosophy Rousseau Social Contract, the 1986, 2005 Fall, Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Political Theory Jefferson Declaration of Independence     Introduction to Great Books 2
Political Theory Tocqueville How an Aristocracy May be Created by Industry     Introduction to Great Books 1
Political Theory Tocqueville Democracy in America 2008 Fall  
Political Theory Tocqueville Democracy in America 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Political Theory Tocqueville Why Americans are Often So Restless 2004 Winter Introduction to Great Books 2
Political Theory Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Garrison, Jackson   2004 Winter Great Documents of American History
Political Theory Henry, Patrick speeches 2003 Fall  
Political Theory Madison, Hamilton, Jay Federalist Papers 2003 Fall  
Political Theory Machiavelli the Prince 1997 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
Political Theory Madison, Jay, Hamilton, Jefferson, et al. The Federalist, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution 1997 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
Political Theory Marx, Engels Manifesto of the Communist Party 1997 Winter The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
psychology James The Social Me     Introduction to Great Books 1
psychology Freud Thoughts on War and Death 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
psychology Jung The Stages of Life 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Psychology Freud the Rat Man 2004 Summer Living with the Past
Psychology Freud On Dreams 1990 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Psychology Freud Civilization and Its Discontents 1986, 2005 Fall, Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Science Bernard Observation and Experiment     Introduction to Great Books 1
Science Poincare The Value of Science 2007 Winter Great Conversations 1
Science Darwin Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals, the 1987, 2005 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series
Social Theory Freud Why War?     Introduction to Great Books 1
Social Theory Weber Spirit of Capitalism 1989 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Social Theory Clausewitz What is War? 1988 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Theology Bible The Gospel of Mark 2008 Winter  
Theology Bible Genesis 2007 Fall  
Theology Bible Ecclesiastes 2007 Fall  
Theology St. Augustine Confessions 2003 Winter complete work
Theology Aquinas Summa Theologica 1997 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
Theology Bible Old Testament: 1 Samuel, 1 Kings; New Testament: Matthew, Acts 1997 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 2
Theology Bible Book of Job 1996 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
Theology St. Augustine The Confessions 1996 Fall The Great Ideas Program, Book 1
Theology Bible Ecclesiastes 1990 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 5th Series
Theology St. Augustine City of God, the 1990 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Theology Bible Job 1989 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 4th Series
Theology Maimonides On Evil 1989 Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Theology Bible Gospel of Mark, the 1988 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 3rd Series
Theology Bible Exodus 1987 Fall The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 2nd Series
Theology Bible Genesis 1986, 2005 Fall, Winter The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, 1st Series

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