Adventures in Classic Readings Sponsored by the FOL's Ruth D. Bogen Memorial Fund

This reading group, facilitated by Dr. Laury Magnus, Professor of English, will feature great classic works -- ancient to contemporary -- as well as participatory reading out loud of selected passages. 

This month's reading will be Longbourn, by Jo Baker, an inventive and intriguing sequel to Pride and Prejudice -- but told from a young servant's point of view. The novel's central character, Sarah, spends most of her life doing laundry or scrubbing out the servant's quarters We are treated to little dollops of Austen's main characters -- Elizabeth, Jane, Charlotte, Darcy, and Bingley. But Sarah's love story centers on the paradoxes of human character and action that impressively hold their own against Austen's originating work. 

Copies of the book will be available at the Information Desk. All participants will receive a complimentary copy of the book provided by the Friends of the Library’s Ruth D. Bogen Memorial Fund (while supplies last).