Saturday, December 4, 2010

January 28, 2011 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton



The above is a photo of the group that met on January 28, 2011 to discuss "The Age of Innocence."
The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.  The story is set in upper class New York City in the 1870s.  We will meet Friday, January 28, 2011 at the Plaza Branch Library in the Small Meeting Room at 7:00 p.m. to discuss this American classic.  
This novel meets our "recent" and "woman author" slots for book selections this year.  This book has a wider popular appeal to the general reading public than some of our other selections.  So if you're one who has complained that our book selections are too old and boring, this may be the one book for this year that you can enjoy.  And if you attend our meeting, we hope that you find our group so interesting that you'll want to attend more of our book discussions.

SCHEDULE for 2011


January 28, 2011
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

February 25, 2011
The Odyssey by Homer

March 25, 2011
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
and the movie, “10 Things I Hate About You”

April 29, 2011
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, tr. Edward FitzGerald

May 27, 2011
Candide by Voltaire

June 24, 2011
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, Part 1

July 29, 2011
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, Part 2

August 26, 2011
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, Part 3

September 30, 2011
Ecclesiastes from the old Testament

October 28, 2011
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

December 2, 2011
Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison