Let's Talk About...Victorian Novels
Book Discussion Series

Led by Camille Banks
Thursday evenings....7:00-8:30 pm
Fall 2004

September 9^th
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Pip, an orphan boy adopted by a blacksmith's family, has good luck and great expectations, and then loses both his luck and his expectations. Through this rise and fall, however, Pip learns how to find happiness. He learns the meaning of friendship and the meaning of love. Ultimately he becomes a better person for it.

October 14^th
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
This novel explores issues of morality, the relativity of moral values, their variation according to time and place and the opposition between man-made laws and Nature. These issues are explored through the experiences of Tess Durbyfield as she encounters the problems of life.

November 11^th
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
This is the story of Maggie Tulliver, the daughter of a miller in the English midlands and her relationship with Philip Wakem, son of a local lawyer. The novel is notable for its portrayal of rural life.

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