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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.

All events are tentatively scheduled and may change. Please see the CMCL Events Calendar on our website, follow us on social media, and subscribe to our weekly eNewsletter for any and all updates.

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 | book club |

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Phone: 609-463-6350
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