GREAT BOOKS – THE SECOND DECADE: YEAR 10, 2016
The calendar is not laid out precisely; the months in the first column show graphically about
when a book is to be read. I have a particular schedule for the books
in the "Day-by-day" column; they are placed in approximate relation to
the list of months, but their exact dates are given as well. The books
in the "Other" column are placed in very loose approximation with the
list of months. I plan to read Ulysses, for instance, sometime in March.
For considerations of space, I included only abbreviated references on this table. Details on titles and page numbers can all be found below the calendar as well as under the tab marked The List, next to the (10) in each category (since this is year 10).
For considerations of space, I included only abbreviated references on this table. Details on titles and page numbers can all be found below the calendar as well as under the tab marked The List, next to the (10) in each category (since this is year 10).
Month | Day-by-day | Other |
---|---|---|
January February March April May June July August September October November December |
Greek plays: 1/1-1/18 Plato: 1/19-2/8 Gibbon I: 2/9-2/25 Aristotle: 2/26-3/22 Lucretius: 3/23-4/13 Aquinas I: 4/14-4/22 Luther: 4/25-5/13 Kant: 5/16-5/30 Euclid: 5/31-6/8 Aquinas II: 6/20-7/8 Montesquieu: 7/11-8/2 Dedekind: 8/3-8/11 Gibbon II: 8/12-9/13 Plutarch: 9/14-10/5 Durant: 10/6-11/15 Augustine: 11/16-12/2 Boswell: 12/5-12/16 James: 12/19-12/29 |
Ovid, Metamorphoses Tennyson II Dickens, Edwin Drood Forsyte, Decoding Edwin Drood Buddhist scriptures II Joyce, Ulysses Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, sixth 1/6 Bede, Eccl. Hist., bks. IV and V Foote, Civil War, vol. I, third 1/3 Racine, Moliere, Corneille Boccaccio, Decameron, day X Fielding, Joseph Andrews O'Brian, 21 Shakespeare deTocqueville Goethe, Wilhelm Meister Austen, Persuasion Lewis, Till We Have Faces Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds Waugh, Short Stories Lewis, Miracles Chesterton, ILN 1917, 1922 Cooper, Wilson Dickens, The Battle of Life |
(1) Greek plays: Heracles
- Heracles Mad (Euripides)
- Alcestis (Euripides)
- Heraclidae (Euripides)
- Philoctetes (Sophocles)
- Trachinian Women (Sophocles)
- Laws, bks.VII-XII
- Rhetoric
- Poetics
- Dion/Marcus Brutus
- Aratus, Artaxerxes, Galba, Otho
(6) Durant, The Story of Civilization
- Vol. VI, Ch. XXX-Epilogue (pp. 663-940)
- Vol. VII, Chs. I-III (pp. 1-87)
(8) Euclid, Elements, Bk. XIII
(9) Church Fathers
- Gregory of Nazianzen, Orations
(11) Aquinas, Suuma Theologica
- Treatise on the Resurrection, 2: Part III, QQ 75-82
- Treatise on the Last Things: Part III, QQ 87-99
(13) Selected Buddhist Scriptures
(14) Medieval Christians
- Bede, Ecclesiastical History, bks. IV & V
(16) Boccaccio, Decameron, day X
(17) Orlando Furioso, sixth 1/6
(18) Tennyson, "In Memoriam," "Lady of Shalott," etc.
(19) Shakespeare
- Henry V
- Timon of Athens
- As You Like It
- Sonnets 121-154
(21) Kant, Critique of Teleological Judgment
(22) Fielding, Tom Jones
(23) Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, pp.541-600
(24) Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
(25) Dickens, Edwin Drood, The Battle of Life
(26) Austen, Persuasion
(27) Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds
(28) William James, Principles of Psychology, chs. XXII, XXVII
(29) Joyce, Ulysses
(30) Lewis, Till We Have Faces
(31) Waugh, Short Stories
(32) Lewis, Miracles
(33) Chesterton, ILN 1917, 1922
(34) O'Brian, 21
(35) Shelby Foote, The Civil War, third 1/3 of vol. I
(36) John Milton Cooper, Wilson
(37) Classical French Drama
- Racine, Britannicus
- Moliere, The Misanthrope
- Corneille, The Cid
(39) deTocqueville, Democracy in America (selections)
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