The Classics Book Group meets at noon in the Bicentennial Room on the third floor of Lincoln Library. You may bring your lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided.
| October 15, 2012 | |
| Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens Published 2012 by Random House UK Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780099533542 Jacket Notes: Choirmaster John Jasper is a man of deep hypocrisy. His public reputation is flawless yet privately he leads an immoral life, frequenting squalid opium dens. Although outwardly he seems delighted with the betrothal of his nephew Edwin Drood to Rosa Bud, one of his choristers, secretly he is consumed by jealousy.... | |
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| November 19, 2012 | |
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| Silas Marner by George Eliot Published 2012 by Tebbo Paperback, English. ISBN: 9781486147380 Jacket Notes: If you have a heart, the story of Silas Marner will warm it. You are better coming to it fresh, without knowing anything of the simple yet solid plot, so I will say nothing of it. I will just urge you to read this wonderful book. Eliot writes beautifully and from page one, you realize you are in the hands of a true artist....
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| January 14, 2013 | |
| Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis Published 2007 by Signet Classics Mass Market Paperbound, English. ISBN: 9780451530752 Jacket Notes: A landmark in American literature, Lewis' portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist--who lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and self-indulgence--is also the chronicle of a reign of vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no record of itself.... | |
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| February 18, 2013 | |
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| Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald Published 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780007449484 Jacket Notes: Heartbreaking American masterpiece of the "Roaring Twenties" based on Fitzgerald's own experience. It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt.... |
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| March 18, 2013 | |
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| The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Published 2011 by Fontal Lobe Publishing Paperback, English. ISBN: 9781907590252 Jacket Notes: Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change.When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.Powerful, intense, visually magnificent, Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius. |
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| April 15, 2013 | |
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| House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Published 2012 by Vintage Books Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780307949523 Jacket Notes: Set among the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York, Edith Wharton's most popular novel is a moving indictment of a society whose soul-crushing limitations destroy a woman too spirited to be contained by them. The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her drive and her spark of independent character prevent her from conforming successfully. |
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| May 20, 2013 | |
| Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene Published 2007 by Penguin Books Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780142438008 JacketNotes: Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, "Our Man in Havana" is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's entertainments, it tells of MI6's man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity |
