The Swarthmore Book Group is composed of Swarthmore alumni, parents
of Swarthmore students, and interested others, who meet in discussion
groups all over the metro area during the academic year to read books on
a common theme. One section meets on the
third Monday of the month at Politics & Prose, and anyone is welcome
to join, on a regular or drop-in basis.
To join the email list and get updates about the group that meets at P&P, email Teresa Rankin, Tsrankin7@gmail.com.
To find out more about the area-wide Swarthmore Book Group, email Carin Ruff, carinr@gmail.com.
For 2014-15, the theme is "Endings and Elegies." The texts for the year are:
1. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
2. L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
3. Anglo-Saxon elegiac poetry selected from Greg Delanty and Michael Matto, The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation: "The Wanderer"; "The Seafarer"; "The Ruin"; "The Wife's
Lament"; "Deor". Romantic and Victorian elegiac poetry (choose
your own text or anthology): Wordsworth, "Lines written a few miles
above Tintern Abbey"; Tennyson, "In Memoriam"; Matthew Arnold, "Dover
Beach" and "Consolation"
4. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
5. Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March
6. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
7. Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
8. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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Published: Back Bay Books - December 11th, 2012
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ISBN: 9780940322998
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Published: NYRB Classics - March 31st, 2002
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 9th, 2012
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Published: Pantheon - November 6th, 2007
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ISBN: 9781585673261
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Published: The Overlook Press - August 1st, 2002
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Published: Vintage - September 12th, 1990
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Published: Anchor - March 30th, 2004
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - August 17th, 2004