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SUMMARY:Curl Up with the Classics
DESCRIPTION:Join with fellow book lovers as we look at books with a 
 timeless place in our history of literature.  \n\nDecember \n\nWalden by 
 Henry David Thoreau \n\nThis series of 18 essays published in 1854 was a 
 record of Thoreau’s experiment in simple living on the northern shore of 
 Walden Pond in eastern Massachusetts (1845–47). Walden is viewed not only 
 as a philosophical treatise on labour\, leisure\, self-reliance\, and 
 individualism but also as an influential piece of nature writing. It is 
 considered Thoreau’s masterwork. \n\nJanuary  \n\nSiddhartha by Hermann 
 Hesse \n\nA 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual 
 journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the 
 Gautama Buddha. \n\nFebruary \n\nInvisible Man by Ralph Ellison \n\nA Black 
 man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to 
 Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility. 
 \n\nMarch \n\nErewhon by Samuel Buter (1872\; 272 pgs) \n\nSetting out to 
 make his fortune in a far-off country\, a young traveller discovers the 
 remote and beautiful land of Erewhon and is given a home among its 
 extraordinarily handsome citizens. He soon learns that the ideal community 
 has its faults. Inspired by Samuel Butler's years in colonial New Zealand 
 and by his reading of Darwin's Origin of Species\, Erewhon is a highly 
 original\, irreverent and humorous satire on conventional virtues\, 
 religious hypocrisy and the unthinking acceptance of beliefs. \n\n April 
 \n\nCranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (1853\; 256 pgs) \n\nA vivid and 
 affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England. The 
 town of Cranford is taken over by refined and independent women when the 
 men must move to nearby Drumble to work\, uprooting the long-standing 
 gender dynamics and changing the social landscape indefinitely. \n\nMay 
 \n\nMoll Flanders (Daniel Defoe (1722\; 304 pgs) \n\nThe novel follows the 
 life of heroine\, Moll Flanders\, which includes her early seduction\, 
 careers in crime and prostitution\, conviction for theft and transportation 
 to the plantations of Virginia\, and her ultimate redemption and prosperity 
 in the New World. \n
LOCATION:Small Meeting Room\, Fredricksen
ORGANIZER;CN="Melinda Shultz":MAILTO:mmshultz@cumberlandcountylibraries.org
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CONTACT;CN="Melinda Shultz":MAILTO:mmshultz@cumberlandcountylibraries.org
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