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Read the Classics: 2009–2010

Lectures & book discussions at the library

This is the archive for past discussions for those who want to see the resources and information provided by the professors for those discussions. In 2009–2010 the series covered five literary eras. Includes the suggested reading about the literature that was discussed.

Information for the five 2009–2010 discussion series (past):

Greece and Rome

Gresham Library

  • The Iliad, Homer
  • The Odyssey, Homer
  • The Aeneid, Virgil
  • The Golden Ass, Apuleius

Middle Ages

Hillsdale Library

  • Beowulf
  • Divine Comedy: Inferno, Dante
  • Divine Comedy: Purgatorio, Dante
  • The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer

1600s & 1700s

Central Library

  • Don Quixote, Cervantes
  • Paradise Lost, Milton
  • Tom Jones, Fielding

1800s Novels

Woodstock Library

  • Frankenstein, Shelley
  • Madame Bovary, Flaubert
  • Great Expectations, Dickens
  • The Portrait of a Lady, James

1900s Novels

Hollywood Library

  • A Passage to India, Forster
  • Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, v. 1), Proust
  • Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf
  • The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner

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