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Great Books Club

with K.Rose Sague

Every other Monday, 10am-12pm in the Cape May Court House Library- Storytime Room. No registration required.

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This reading club focuses on collections made available through the Great Books Foundation. All are welcome to attend!

Meeting every other Monday, 10am-12pm in the CMCH Storytime Room from Sept. 2022-May 2023.

Through the end of this year, the club will be dedicated to finishing the collection originally focused on during the 2019-2020 session that was cut short: Imperfect Ideal: Utopian & Dystopian Visions. The reading selection for the second half of the session will be determined at a later date.

Date Reading Page #

01/09/2023

 “A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms” from Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathan Swift Pages 123-201
01/23/2023 “A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms” from Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathan Swift Pages 123-201
03/06/2023 “Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith Pages 205-247
03/20/2023 “Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith Pages 205-247
04/03/2023 King Lear, Acts I-II by William Shakespeare Pages 1-53
04/17/2023 King Lear, Acts III-V by William Shakespeare Pages 545-119
05/01/2023 The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison Pages 256-264
05/15/2023 Excerpt from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Pages 268-275

AGE GROUP: | 18 or older |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Clubs |

TAGS: | great books club | great books | bookclub | book club |

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