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Do you like reading classic novels or poetry? Each month we will select a classic work and have an in-person discussion around it. Anything from Austen to Zola is fair game.
Naturally, the definition of "classic" is subjective. A good collection of free, public domain ebooks can be found here. Classic of course doesn't necessarily need to be public domain, or even "old", but it would be best to have some convenient way to read it without requiring a purchase. Luckily the Stockholm public library has a very good collection of novels in English.
The discussion will be in English; being classics however, most (if not all) of the works we'll read will have a Swedish translation, and they will typically be available at the public library.
The works will be chosen by committee, so if there's a particular book you'd like to read, that can probably be accommodated.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeKällarbyn, Stockholm
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) is a farcical comedic play by the Irish author, poet and playwright Oscar Wilde.
From Standard Ebooks:
"The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde's most popular play today, enduring thanks to its easy humour, witty dialog, and clever satire. It was also one of his more successful plays, despite its first run being prematurely ended after only 86 performances. The main characters pretend to be other people in order to escape social obligations, with the resulting confusion of identities driving the plot and the humour behind it."This play is in the public domain and a free ebook is available here. There are also multiple copies at the Stockholm public library.
- Fictions (Ficciones) by Jorge Luis BorgesKällarbyn, Stockholm
Fictions (Ficciones, approx. 174 pages) is a collection of short stories originally published in Spanish between 1941 and 1956 by the Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges.
From Goodreads:
"The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything else in between."There are multiple copies available at the Stockholm public library in a variety of languages. The English translation goes by either Fictions or Ficciones. Many of the stories also appear in the collection Labyrinths, which the library also has.
