Great Books Discussion Group: "The Rocking-Horse Winner"

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Discussion, Literacy

Age Group:

Adults
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Register and join us in person or on Zoom to read and discuss writings from the Great Books collection. To join, please complete the Great Books webform.

January 17

"Mary Postgate" by Rudyard Kipling, 1915

February 7

"Hairball" by Margaret Atwood, 1990

February 21

"The House with the Mezzanine" by Anton Chekov, 1896

March 6

"Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason, 1982

March 20

"The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence, 1926

April 3

"The Inherited Clock" by Elizabeth Bowen, 1944

April 17

"Fat" by Raymond Carver, 1971

May 1

"Famine" by Xu Xi, 2004

May 15

"Not a Good Girl" by Perri Klass, 1983

"For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" by Nathan Englander,1999

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