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1982: SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE: |
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The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot |
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Persuasion, Jane Austen |
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Becket, Jean Anouilh. |
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1983: KEYS TO THE TREASURE: |
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Analytical Psychology, Jung; |
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Dunyazadiad, John Barth; |
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The Manticore, Robertson Davies |
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1984: THE DANCER AND THE DANCE: |
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The Wisdom of Insecurity, Alan
Watts; |
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Zorba the Greek, Kazantzakis; |
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Ridley Walker, R. Hoban. |
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1985: MASKS AND MIRRORS: |
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Richard II, Shakespeare; |
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Masks, Fumiko Enchi; |
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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, John
Ashbery. |
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1986: OUR GODS, OURSELVES: |
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Saviors of God, Kazantzakis; |
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A Burnt-Out Case, Graham Greene; |
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Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis. |
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1987: TAMING THE PAST: |
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Free Fall, W. Golding; |
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The Fifth Son, Elie Weisel; |
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Feila’s Child, Matthee. |
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1988: PERHAPS LOVE: |
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On Love, A. Orage; |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora
Neal Hurston; |
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We, R. Johnson. |
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1989: UNFETTERED: |
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Book of Exodus; |
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Beloved, Toni Morrison; |
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The Road Less Traveled, Peck. |
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1990: ANOTHER TIME: |
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Stones for Iberra, H. Doerr; |
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Our Town, Thornton Wilder; |
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Duino Elegies, Rilke. |
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1991: LIFE SENTENCES: |
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Language and Myth, E. Cassirer; |
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A Defence of Poetry, Shelley; |
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Eagle or Sun, Paz. |
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1992: LEGACIES: |
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Human Nature and Conduct: Dewey; |
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The Price, Arthur Miller; |
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Oscar and Lucinda, Carey. |
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1993: REASON UNREQUITED: |
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Critique of Pure Reason, Kant; |
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Phaedra, Racine; |
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Immortality, Milo Kundera. |
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1994: EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: |
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Ways of Seeing, J. Berger; |
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Fifth Business, Robertson Davies; |
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An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,
Wallace Stevens. |
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1995: SOUL SURVIVORS. |
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night,
O’Neill; |
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The English Patient, Ondaatje; |
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Poem #41 from Proverbs and Song-Verse, Antonio
Machado. |
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1996: LOVE AND DECEPTION. |
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The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hardy;
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M. Butterfly, David Hwang; |
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Truth, RLS |
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1997: STILL LIFES. |
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The Fall, Camus; |
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Fra Lippo Lippi, Browning; |
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Six Degrees of Separation, John
Guare |
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1998: THE MYSTERY OF KNOWING. |
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Mrs. Dalloway,
Woolf; |
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Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas
Kuhn; |
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Arcadia, Stoppard |
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1999: CHARISMA. |
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The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald; |
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The Prince, Macchiavelli; |
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Autumn of the Patriarch, Marquez |
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2000: GRACE UNDER PRESSURE: |
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God, A Biography, Jack Miles; |
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The Warden , Trollope; |
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A Man for All Seasons, Richard Bolt |
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2001: TRUE BELIEVERS: |
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Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver; |
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Gorgias, Plato; |
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Saint Joan, Shaw |
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2002: HERO NOW… |
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Beowulf, transl. Seamus Heaney; |
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Lysistrata, Aristophanes; |
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Henry V, Shakespeare |
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2003: MANIFEST DESTINY: |
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The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell; |
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Shorter Summa, selections, Thomas Aquinas; |
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A Way in the World, V. S. Naipaul. (Friday: Essay
on empire) |
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2004: BEING AND SEEMING: |
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The Alchemist, Ben Jonson; |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S.
Eliot; |
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Last Report of the Miracles at Little No Horse, Louise
Erdrich. (Friday: paintings) |
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2005: POWER AND MORALITY: |
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Faust, Part I, Goethe; |
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, Hume; |
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The Royal Physician’s Visit, Per
Olov Enquist. |
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2006: DIVIDED LOYALTIES: |
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Burial at Thebes, Heaney; |
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Tale of Two Cities, Dickens; |
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Regeneration, Barker |
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2007: “WOULD YOU BELIEVE,,,?” Faith vs. Reason: |
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Gilgamesh, new transl.; |
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Future of an Illusion, Freud; |
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Hummingbird’s Daughter, Urrea. |