Bailey Cove Classics

Discusses classics from world literature including novels, novellas, short stories, plays, and epic poems. 

Meets the first Monday of every month at 10 a.m. at the Bailey Cove Branch Library, 1409 Weatherly Plaza Drive.

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Bailey Cove Classics: Metamorphosis (Feb 6 2012 10:00am)
Bailey Cove Classics: Metamorphosis

(This title may also be freely downloaded as an ebook from HMCPL's Digital Media Zone Public Domain Collection.)  Virtually unknown during his lifetime,Franz Kafkais now one of the world's most widely read and discussed authors. His nightmarish novels and short stories have come to symbolize modern man's anxiety and alienation in a bizarre, hostile, and dehumanized world.

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Bailey Cove Classics: The Robber Bridegroom (Mar 5 2012 10:00am)
Bailey Cove Classics: The Robber Bridegroom

Legendary figures of Mississippi' s past-flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers-mingle with characters from Eudora Welty' s own imagination in an exuberant fantasy set along the Natchez Trace. Berry-stained bandit of the woods Jamie Lockhart steals Rosamond, the beautiful daughter of pioneer planter Clement Musgrove, to set in motion this frontier fairy tale. " For all her wild, rich fancy, Welty writes prose that is as disciplined as it is beautiful" (New Yorker).

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Bailey Cove Classics: An Enemy of the People (Apr 2 2012 10:00am)
Bailey Cove Classics: An Enemy of the People

We will be reading and discussing one of the major plays by the first modern playwright, Henrick Ibsen. An Enemy Of The People -- Ibsen's vigorous attack on public opinion.

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Bailey Cove Classics: A Midsummer Night's Dream (May 7 2012 10:00am)
Bailey Cove Classics: A Midsummer Night's Dream

From the hilarious mischief of the elf Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeare's marvelous A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play of enchantment and an insightful portrait of the predicaments of love.

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Bailey Cove Classics: The End of the Affair (Jun 4 2012 10:00am)
Bailey Cove Classics: The End of the Affair

In England during World War II, an American writer and the bored wife of a British civil servant fall in love. Then she mysteriously ends the affair.

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Bailey Cove Classics: Hadji Murad (Jul 2 2012 10:00am)
Bailey Cove Classics: Hadji Murad

In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamil’s prison, Hadji Murád was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle of his life, was killed.
 

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