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2008 CLASSICS IN THE AFTERNOON
January 2, 2008 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins The moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty brought from India and given to Rachel Verrinder as an eighteenth birthday present, but the fabled diamond carries with it a terrible curse.
April 2, 2008 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Nobel Prize-winning author's first novel follows the dual story of a wounded war correspondent's hopeless pursuit of an unattainable lady and a band of expatriates' 1920s journey from Paris's Left Bank to the bull fights of Spain.
July 2, 2008 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad Jim, the first mate aboard the Patna, dreams youthful dreams of heroism and of the daring act that will prove his courage. But when the ship collides with a mysterious obstacle, Jim panics and jumps free. This single act of cowardice drives him to self-enforced exile.
October 1, 2008 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Esther Greenwood, a talented and successful writer, finally succumbs to madness when the world around her begins to falter.
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