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Skiddaw

Landmark Novels of the 20th Century

Status:Active, open to new members
Convenor:
When: Afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Second week of the month, on Tuesdays
Venue: Quaker Meeting House.
Cost: A contribution to the cost of refreshments.

You will need to purchase your own copy of the books and I hope to progress at around one novel per month depending on size. We will study them in the order shown below. The books we will be reading are ;

  • The Heart of Darkness (pub) 1902 Joseph Conrad
  • A Room with a View 1908 E M Forster
  • The Great Gatsby 1926 F Scott Fitzgerald
  • To the Lighthouse 1927 Virginia Woolf
  • Brave New World 1932 Aldous Huxley
  • The Grapes of Wrath 1939 John Steinbeck
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949 George Orwell
  • Fahrenheit 451 1953 Ray Bradbury
  • Wide Sargasso Sea 1966 Jean Rhys
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman 1969 John Fowles
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 1974 Robert Pirsig
  • The Color Purple 1982 Alice Walker
  • The Handmaid’s Tale 1985 Margaret Atwood
  • The Remains of the Day 1989 Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Regeneration 1991 Pat Barker