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Odyssey Novels Book Club NEW

with Prof. Mary English of Montclair State University
2024-11-16 14:00:00 2024-11-16 15:30:00 America/New_York Odyssey Novels Book Club NEW This is a paid Adult School class. Click on the link below to register on the Adult School website. Main Library - Tower Room

Saturday, November 16
2:00pm - 3:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-11-16 14:00:00 2024-11-16 15:30:00 America/New_York Odyssey Novels Book Club NEW This is a paid Adult School class. Click on the link below to register on the Adult School website. Main Library - Tower Room

Main Library

Tower Room

This is a paid Adult School class. Click on the link below to register on the Adult School website.

Join Mary English, classics professor at Montclair State University, for a lively three-month book club this fall to explore these popular, critically acclaimed novelistic takes on the Odyssey. You'll have a month to finish each book and they're all worth a re-read if you happen to have read one of them already.

September 21: "Circe" by Madeline Miller
October 19: "The Penelopiad" by Margaret Atwood
November 16: "Ithaka by Adele Geras

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Discussion |

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