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Edith Wharton's Customs of the Country Book Discussion

Join Michael Bevel, sensational facilitator of Bethesda Library's long-running Victorian Literature reading group, in discussing


Love and Other Disillusions: Novels from 1760-1960


You explore them at 7PM on the 3rd Tuesday of the Month in 2013

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  • 16 April The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton, 1913

  • 21 May Middlemarch by George Eliot, 1871

  • 18 June The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, Chi-Chen Wang translation, 1760

  • 16 July The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 1830

  • 20 August The Crime of Father Amaro by Jose Maria Eça de Queiros, 1875

  • 17 September The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor, 1960

  • 15 October Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, 1811

  • 19 November The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, 1868

  • 17 December Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, 1912


Love and Other Disillusions,: Novels from 1760-1960,


will be lead by the sensational Michael Bevel,

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To request ADA program accommodation, contact:


The Bethesda Library


7400 Arlington Road, Bethesda MD 20814


240-777-0970; TTY 301-657-0840


five working days in advance.


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