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“Sharing Our Past — Shaping Our Future” Since 1974 |
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For more information contact VHC or 802.262.2626 |
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For the Literary at Heart Here are the English classes you wish you had taken in school. Booker Prize Winners ~ 4 sessionsEstablished in 1968, England’s Booker Prize is awarded annually to a citizen of the U.K., the Commonwealth, Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa who has written the year’s best novel according to a panel of critics, writers, and academics. In a short 35 years, the Booker has achieved an air of dignity and respect that rivals even the 86-year-old Pulitzer Prize. Graham Swift, who won the Booker in 1996, singled it out as the finest accolade a writer can receive, “It’s the one which, if we’re completely honest, we most covet.” John Berger, G (1972) J. M. Coetzee, The Life and Times of Michael K. (1983) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (2000)
Eudora Welty: Beyond the Short Stories ~ 3 to 6 sessions Many people know Eudora Welty for her classic short stories like “Why I Live at the P.O.” and “A Worn Path.” But she also published a memoir that the New Yorker called “all wonderful” and five critically acclaimed novels including the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Optimist’s Daughter. (Groups may choose to read fewer than five novels.) One Writer’s BeginningsThe Complete Novels (includes The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist’s Daughter)
The Genius of Mark Twain ~ 3 sessionsBrilliant satire, knee-slapping comedy, and potent social commentary . . . what more can you ask for? A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Life on the Mississippi Pudd’nhead Wilson
Honor ~ 5 Sessions What is honor? How has the understanding of it changed from culture to culture, and era to era? How does one resolve competing claims of honor when personal honor diverges from family honor, or from national honor? Andre Brink, A Dry, White Season Walker Percy, Lancelot Maryse Conde, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence Kamala Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve
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