ONCE1195 - Reading Between the Wars (Book Discussion)

Course Description

Join us in our discussion of five classic novels about the interwar period. Not just social history, these are stories, first, about the people living through the tumultuous years following the first World War. We begin with Elizabeth Jane Howard’s, The Light Years, a family saga of class and desire at the beginning of Britain’s modern age. We continue with Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s brilliant Pulitzer Prize winning novel of unforgettable characters caught in the fall of the British Empire in India. Next, we turn to the United States with Jazz, Toni Morrison’s story of a fatal love triangle set in the Harlem Renaissance. Returning to England, we follow with Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s modernist rendering of love, regret, and reckoning. We end with the Ernest Hemingway’s Lost Generation classic,  A Moveable Feast, a nostalgic look at Paris in the twenties, and the hopefulness of youth.  

Instructor: Miriam Camitta

Note: Books listed in Course Description 

There will be 2 Sections of this Class:

• Mornings (10 AM - 12:00 PM) ONCE1195-001
• Afternoon (1:00 PM - 3:00 PM) ONCE1195-002

Class Meets Online via Zoom on: September 14, October 5, 19, November 9 and 16, 2021

Notes

Fall 2021:

Class Meets Online via Zoom on: September 14, October 5, 19, November 9 and 16, 2021