January
14, 2009 Freud,
Great Books Vol 54, pp. 1-20, 38-59,
Freud 526-539,
569-585, 818-840
Origin
and Development of Psycho-Analysis,
Ch 3 and
General Introduction to
Psycho-Analysis, Lectures 13-14,
20-21
[Note: Last selection of Great
Ideas Program, Vol 9, “Biology, Psychology, & Medicine”]
January
28, 2009 Sylvia
Plath (US) The Bell Jar (288 pages)
February
4, 2009 Ruth
Prawer Jhabvala (Germany)
Jhabvala Heat
and Dust (190 pages)
February
18, 2009 ** Gao
Xingjian (China - 2000) Soul Mountain
Xingjian Chapters
1 to 44
March 4, 2009 ** Gao Xingjian Soul Mountain Chapters 45 to 81
March
18, 2009 George
Eliot Daniel Deronda Books
I to IV
April
8, 2009 George
Eliot Daniel Deronda Books
V to VIII
April
22, 2009 Buddha’s
“Long Discourses” (“Digha Nikaya”)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/index.html
[May
2nd is Vesak (“Buddha Day”)]
May 6, 2009 ** Pearl Buck (US - 1938)
Buck A
House Divided (348
pages)
May
20, 2009 Edith
Wharton (United States)
Wharton The
House of Mirth (352
pages)
June
10, 2009
Roddy Doyle (Ireland)
Doyle Paddy
Clarke Ha Ha Ha (288 pages)
June
24, 2009 Anne
Tyler (United States) (336
pages)
Tyler Dinner
at the Homesick Restaurant
July
8, 2009 Shakespeare’s
“Hamlet”
July
22, 2009 Gita
Mehta (India) A River Sutra (304 pages)
August
12, 2009 ** Jose
Saramago (Portugal - 1998) Blindness
August
26, 2009 Willa
Cather (United States) (352 pages)
Cather The
Great Short Works of Willa Cather
September
2, 2009 ** Paul
Heyse (Germany - 1910)
Heyse “The
Fury” and “Andrea Delfin” (2 novellas)
[Delfin is available at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3156
and Fury at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5431]
September
16, 2009 ** Anatole
France (France - 1921)
France The
Gods are Athirst (113 pages)
[
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24010
]
September
30, 2009 ** Doris
Lessing (England - 2007)
Lessing The
Grass is Singing
October 14, 2009
CarlJung (Switzerland)
Jung
Modern Man In Search of a Soul (252 pages)
October 28, 2009 ** Grazia
Deledda (Italy - 1926)
Deledda The
Mother (252 pages)
November
4, 2009 Nikki
Giovanni (US) (96 pages, poetry)
Giovanni Cotton
Candy on a Rainy Day
November 18, 2009 ** Pablo
Neruda (Chile - 1971)
Neruda The
Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
December 2, 2009 ** Rudolf
Eucken (Germany - 1908) (30 pages)
Eucken Ethics and modern thought; a theory of their
relations
December
16, 2009 Krishnamurti
Think on These Things
Krishnamurti (272 pages)
January
6, 2010 Simone
de Beauvoir (France) (162 pages)
de Beauvoir
The Ethics of Ambiguity
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/index.htm
January
20, 2010 ** Jean
Paul Sartre (France - 1964)
Sartre “Existentialism is a Humanism”
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm
February
10, 2010 (3
week gap here so choose a long one)
February
24, 2010 Iris
Murdoch (England) The Bell
(320 pages)
Murdoch Reading Guide: http://www.greatbooks.org/library/guides/the-bell.html