If you enjoy good intellectual discussion and essays as well as short stories, poems, and plays, then this course is for you. The Great Books Foundation, established in 1947, promotes lifelong education through the reading and discussion of outstanding literature. Its aim is to encourage all people to participate in a “Great Conversation” with the authors of significant works in the Western canon. This class gives you the opportunity to be in that conversation. Last term, we had outstanding round-table discussions every week. In this Spring’s 8-week course, we’ll discuss selections from the Foundation’s book titled Great Conversations 3, which is an anthology of classic and contemporary works. Our syllabus will consist of 3 essays, 4 short stories, and a play, one selection per week:

• The Pardoner’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer, 1387 AD)

• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (David Hume, 1745),

• The Unknown Masterpiece (Honore’ de Balzac, 1831),

• A Defence of Poetry (Percy Bysche Shelley, 1820),

• The Man Who Would Be King (Rudyard Kipling, 1888),

• Second Epilogue to War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, 1869),

• Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello, 1921),

• The Open Boat (Stephen Crane, 1898).

The Great Conversations 3 book is available from The Great Books Foundation and from Amazon. Please call or text the moderator (512-694-3669), with any questions. Limit 11.

Leonard Hough, Moderator
1:00—3:00 P.M. Thursday, Starts Feb. 19
Unity Church of Austin
5501 W. U.S. Hwy. 290 (78735)