Great Literature Discussions

In his best-loved novel, Balzac explores the uses and abuses of money with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his...

Mama King, an elderly woman with an indomitable spirit is placed in a rest home in Guyana by her children who live in America. This claustrophobic experience slowly leeches away...

In this bitterly funny novel, a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Published in Poland...

This beautiful and eloquent semi-autobiographical 1954 novel tells of a simple peasant woman in a village in India who meets changing times with remarkable fortitude. This was Markandaya’s first novel,...

Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies and two years later by The Unnamable. Few...

In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten,...

A gargantuan comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America, Infinite Jest explores what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives, how our desire for...

This 1957 novel is Daphne’s song of survival but also the author’s: Frame was herself misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and scheduled for brain surgery. She was famously saved only when she...

This week's discussion is on Nutshell by Ian McEwan: As Trudy’s unborn son listens, bound within her body, to his mother and his uncle’s murderous plans, he gives us a...