Curl Up with the Classics

Join us as we discuss the Classics! You must have read or listened to the book to attend. Ages 18 and older, please. Registration for all sessions begins May 1. This program is sponsored inmemory of Marie Schleicher.

Tuesday, June 4– Great American Short Stories collection 
Join us as we discuss some great American short stories. 

"The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry 

“The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane 

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London 

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce 

“A Village Singer” by Mary Wilkins Freeman 

Tuesday, July 9– A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain 
Join us as we discuss Twain's comedic social satire about the adventure of nineteenth-century Hank Morgan “finding himself in Camelot, King Arthur’s England, facing a world whose idyllic surface masks fear, injustice, and ignorance.”   Date change due to Amy’s personal conflict. 

Tuesday, August 6 – To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 

Join us as we discuss Woolf’s best-known stream-of-consciousness novel about “the daily life and interactions of a large English family and their guests on holiday in the Hebrides.” 

Host or Publisher Fredricksen Library