The Tortoise and the Hare, by Elizabeth Jenkins

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A book club salon, hosted by Henry Oliver who writes The Common Reader.    We will discuss The Tortoise and the Hare, by Elizabeth Jenkins, one of the great post-war English novels, a vicious, Austen-esque novel about the break-up of a marriage, late-bloomers, and changing social mores in 1950s Britain. As well as discussing the…

$10.00

Samuel Johnson: Reading for Wisdom

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Samuel Johnson enthusiast, Henry Oliver, will be exploring Johnson's philosophical writing about how to live a good life. Johnson is famous for his Dictionary, his Shakespeare, for Boswell's biography, and for his very quotable witticisms. But what can we still from Johnson about self-development? As he once said to his servant, you can never be…

$15.00