Malvern Books’ Club: Reading Classics from New York Review Books

When:
December 2, 2017 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
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Cost:
Free

Welcome to Malvern Books’ Club: Reading Classics from New York Review Books, hosted (on most occasions) by Malvern’s own curmudgeon-in-chief, Dr. Joe. Everyone is invited to join us for what we’re sure will be a series of irreverent and insightful conversations.

Our December selection is Simon Leys’ The Death of Napoleon, an alternative history that looks at “what could have been” had Napoleon escaped from exile on Saint Helena and returned to France to try to claim back his throne.

Utterly satisfying sentence by sentence and scene by scene, but it is also compulsively readable . . . Simon Leys throws light on our universal need to bring inner and outer reality together, to understand who we really are.— The Times Literary Supplement

A small masterpiece. So much spirit, so much insolence, and so much emotion joined in so few pages overwhelmingly earn the reader’s enthusiasm and praise. One closes the book regretfully, sincerely hoping that Simon Leys will not stop there. —Corinne Desportes, Le Magazine Litterairet

The NYRB Classics series started in 1999 with the publication of A High Wind in Jamaica and by the end of this year over 400 titles will be in print—so we have plenty of excellent reading material to choose from. The series includes nineteenth-century and experimental novels, reportage and belles lettres, established classics and cult favorites, and literature high, low, unsuspected, and unheard of. Literature in translation also constitutes a major part of the NYRB Classics series, including new translations of canonical figures such as Euripides, Aeschylus, Dante, Balzac, Nietzsche, and Chekhov, as well as fresh translations of Stefan Zweig, Robert Walser, Alberto Moravia, and Curzio Malaparte, among others.

Book Club

How it works:

Stop by Malvern Books to sign up and you’ll receive a 10% discount off the title! Read the book and then come to the meeting prepared with either a question or specific passage to discuss with the group. We’ll look forward to seeing you on December 2nd.

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