BURNING PATIENCE (THE POSTMAN) by Antonio Skarmeta Date: January 18, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
A shy postman gets help from the exiled poet Pablo Neruda to win the heart of the most beautiful woman on the isle of Capri.
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UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Milan Kundera Date: February 01, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
This magnificent novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples.
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LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov Date: February 15, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him.
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LOLITA by Moliere Date: March 21, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The bigoted and prudish Orgon falls completely under the power of the wily Tartuffe.
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GOOD EARTH by Pearl Buck Date: April 04, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
A poignant tale about the life and labors of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country's last emperor.
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MOLL FLANDERS by Daniel Defoe Date: April 18, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Defoe's eighteenth-century novel of a woman's eventual escape from the life of immorality and wickedness imposed on her by society since her birth.
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A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul Date: May 16, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house of his own is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair after he marries into the domineering Tulsi family.
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BARCHESTER TOWERS by Anthony Trollope Date: September 05, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The appointment of a new bishop and the ensuing conflicts and intrigue form the basis of this satire of the clergy. Check the Catalog
"Song of Myself" and "Democratic Vistas" (from LEAVES OF GRASS) by Walt Whitman Date: September 19, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature.
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PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M.Forster Date: October 03, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
In a scathing indictment of British imperialism, Forster's once controversial novel portrays two Englishwomen who experience misunderstanding and cultural conflict after they travel to India. Check the Catalog
THE PRINCE by Nicolo Machiavelli Date: October 17, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago.
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Date: November 07, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The novel satirizes the society of the late eighteenth century to great effect and held together with Smollett’s characteristically coarse sense of humour - usually at the expense of his characters and the stereotypes they represent.
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Date: November 21, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in the early Victorian era – the role of governess to the children of the wealthy. In working with two different families (the Bloomfields and the Murrays), she comes to learn about the troubles that face a young woman who must try to rein in unruly, spoiled children for a living, and about the ability of wealth and status to destroy social values.
MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN by Marguerite Yourcenar
Date: December 05, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Fictional account of the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian. The book takes the form of a letter to Hadrian's cousin and eventual successor "Mark" (Marcus Aurelius).
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MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION by George Bernard Shaw Date: December 19, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The play centers on Mrs. Warren, who, forced by the economic realities of nineteenth-century London, becomes a prostitute and later runs several successful brothels. Through her characterization, Shaw exposes the corruption and hypocrisy of the "genteel" class. Check the catalog
PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER and HOLIDAY by Katherine Ann Porter Date: January 02, 2009
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Short novels deal with turn of the century family life, a new hired hand, and the World War I homefront and the influenza epidemic
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PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov Date: January 16, 2009
10:00 am - 11:30 am
A cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue. Check the catalog
WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronté Date: February 06, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The passionate love of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff mirrors the powerful moods of the Yorkshire moors. Check the catalog
"Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats and "Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens Date: February 20, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Read poems by two well known American poets.
BLIND ASSASSIN by Margaret Atwood Date: March 06, 2009
10:00 am - 11:30 am
In an imaginative, multi-layered novel, Iris describes the 1945 death of her sister, Laura, who drives her car off a bridge, followed, two years later, by the death of her husband, a wealthy industrialist whose body is found aboard a sailboat, in a story that features a novel-within-a-novel about two unnamed lovers who meet in a dark backstreet room. Winner of the Booker Prize. Check the catalog
Date: March 20, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Date: April 03, 2009
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Collected recent essays by the acclaimed novelist-critic range over a broad spectrum, offering fresh and sharply focused appraisals of life and art. Check the catalog
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh Date: April 17, 2009
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Captain Charles Ryder, stationed at Brideshead, recalls his boyhood associations with the odd but charming members of an English noble family. Check the catalog
Date: May 01, 2009
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Antigone buries her brother although her uncle, the king, has decreed death to anyone who does so. Check the catalog
Date: May 15, 2009
10:00 am - 11:30 am
The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Check the catalog
Date: September 04, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Presents Dinesen's compelling account of the fifteen years she spent managing a coffee plantation in colonial East Africa and four sketches that evoke the land and the people of her beloved Africa. Check the Catalog
THE BRIDAL WREATH by Sigrid Undset Date: September 18, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
A Nobel prize winner in 1928, this trilogy deals with the life of a Scandinavian woman in the fourteenth century. Check the Catalog
Poems by Robert Frost Date: October 02, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
"Mending Wall," "After Apple Picking," and "The Wood-Pile."
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THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark Date: October 16, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
The story of a charismatic schoolteacher’s catastrophic effect on her pupils. Check the Catalog
Date: November 06, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
"On a Criticism of Thomas Hardy" by Katherine Anne Porter. "Love and Loss on Zyrcon" by John Updike.
HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster Date: November 20, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life. Check the Catalog
Date: December 04, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Saga of family life that includes a Southern man obsessed with grandiose dreams.
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Date: January 08, 2010
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nellie Reed disappears from her home at 22 Lipka Street, and her husband Frank - suspecting she has returned to England - must raise their three young children with the help of beautiful Lisa Ivanovna. Check the Catalog
Date: January 22, 2010
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion of the short stories: "Gimpel the Fool," "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," and "A friend of Kafka."
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather Date: February 05, 2010
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour becomes Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico, and over the next forty years he faces the lawlessness and loneliness of the frontier as he tries to spread his faith.
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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare Date: February 19, 2010
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra and the Roman leader Mark Antony who is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between an empire and love.
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