Dr. Jason Jewell, head of the Dept. of Humanities at Faulkner University, has resolved to read the Great Books of the Western World series in seven years. Read about it on his blog.
He is posting weekly reviews and links to all the reading material.
So far I've read:
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent - John Erskine
The Two Drovers - Sir Walter Scott
The Three Hermits - Leo Tolstoy
Of the Study of History - David Hume
Of Truth - Francis Bacon
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - Mark Twain
The English Bill of Rights - 1689
The March to the Sea (Book IV of The Persian Expedition) - Xenophon
My First Play - Charles Lamb
On Friendship - Cicero
The Enchiridion - Epictetus
The Killers - Ernest Hemingway
New Names For Old - Edward Kasner & James R. Newman
The Life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola - Tacitus
On Being the Right Size - J.B.S. Haldane
The Lantern-bearers - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Eruption of Vesuvius - Pliny the Younger
Beyond the Google - Edward Kasner & James R. Newman
Contentment - Plutarch (chapter 4 of 'Moralia')
A Call to Patriots - Thomas Paine
