Great Literature Discussions

Literary works will be discussed based on what can be found in the text in order to enrich each other’s interpretation of the novel/novella. All are welcome to join and...

NOTICE: This week's GLD has been postponed until next Wednesday, January 13. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an...

This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary, and a quest. Italo Calvino was one of...

Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by his maker and denied human...

This tumultuous and sweeping play centers around a woman contending with her own dissatisfaction, trapped with a husband and a home she does not want, at the turn of the...

Against the backdrop of the proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances, this quiet drama of ordinary lives is played out by the novel’s complexly portrayed characters—until the...

Through the story of a quiet academic life this novel tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance...

The devastating final work by Brazil's greatest modern writer tells the haunting tale of Macabea, a typist who lives in the slums of Rio - underfed, sickly, and unloved, yet...

In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes—the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature...

Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral...