Name: Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Start: 2024-11-24T20:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-11-24T22:00:00.000Z
Location: Balzac's Distillery District

For September, we'll read Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

About the book:

One of Zola's most famous realist novels, *Therese Raquin* is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society.

Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this powerful novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband, Camille, but are subsequently haunted by visions of the dead man, and prevented from enjoying the fruits of their crime.

Zola's shocking tale dispassionately dissects the motivations of his characters--mere "human beasts", who kill in order to satisfy their lust--and stands as a key manifesto of the French Naturalist movement, of which the author was the founding father. Published in 1867, this is Zola's most important work before the Rougon-Macquart series and introduces many of the themes that can be traced through the later novel cycle.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110871.Th_r_se_Raquin?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=F0MXrdQ4mP&rank=1

More Than A Classic Book Club

Aida Kane

Natalie

Açaï Barry

Therese Raquin by Emile Zola

Balzac's Distillery District

For October, we'll read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

About the book:

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein

Harley Karulis 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

For November, we'll read Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

About the book:

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption, achieved through loving forgiveness and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived. This edition, which updates a classic translation, has explanatory notes, and a substantial introduction based on the most recent scholarship in the field.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42641.Resurrection?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_8

Amirhossein Ahmadi Noori

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy 

Lifelong Learning Network

Search {networkName}

Groups

{PRO_NETWORK_NAME} is on Meetup Pro with more than {PRO_MEMBER_COUNT} members across {PRO_GROUP_COUNT} Meetups worldwide. Meetup Pro is the professional tool for organizing and communicating a network of users, partners, contributors and members.

Grow your community

The Lifelong Learning Network gathers educational groups dedicated to provide great learning spaces. 
We host and organize in-person and virtual gatherings for people whose educational curiosity has no boundaries.  Some of our groups are specialized while others are spaces for general knowledge and general culture. We strive to cater to lifelong learners' unquenchable curiosity.

Lifelong Learning Network

Meet people who view conscious learning as a lifestyle.

Lifelong Learning Network

Who we are

Search Lifelong Learning Network

Upcoming events

Groups