English Reading Group
Gruppo di lettura che legge in lingua originale narrativa in lingua inglese di autori anglofoni di varia provenienza
Il gruppo si impegna a leggere in lingua originale narrativa in lingua inglese di autori anglofoni di varia provenienza: statunitensi, britannici, irlandesi, ma anche sudafricani, indiani, canadesi, australiani, etc.
Scopo del gruppo è di promuovere la conoscenza dell’inglese, che ormai è divenuto la lingua franca internazionale, esplorando nel contempo tradizioni, costumi, mentalità di altri paesi e affrontando temi di
attualità e di carattere generale da punti di vista diversi.
Gli incontri si tengono una volta al mese, tendenzialmente l’ultimo lunedì, alle ore 17, salvo diverso accordo che viene comunicato tramite i contatti di fianco indicati
La partecipazione è del tutto libera e aperta anche a chi non ha letto il libro, o lo ha letto in lingua italiana, che può sempre partecipare alla discussione su temi di carattere generale. La discussione si tiene in lingua italiana.
- The Seed and the Sower by Laurens Van der Post
- The master by Colm Tóibín
- The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell
- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- The Plains by Gerald Murnane
- Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
- Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
- The garden party by Katherine Mansfield
- By the sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- The catcher in the rye by J. D. Salinger
- 10th. December by George Saunders
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- The lives of animals by J. M. Coetzee
- The secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Blue flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The noise of time by Jiulian Barnes
- Noggin by John Corey Whaley
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- The empty family by Colm Toibin
- Klara and the sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Rabbit, Run by John Updike
- Machines like me by Ian McEwan
- The shadow lines by Amitav Ghosh
- In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
- Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption by Stephen King
- The Aspern Papers by Henry James
- The British museum is falling apart by David Lodge
- Home fire by Kamila Shamsie
- Escape routes by Nami Ishiguro
- Sanctuary by William Faulkner
"We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep." ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Containing a number of religious and historic allusions, the book explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
Its great burden is the weight of unacknowledged sin as seen in the remorse and cowardice and suffering of the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale. Contrasted with his concealed agony is the constant confession, conveyed by the letter, which is forced upon Hester, and has a double effect, - a healthful one, working beneficently, and making her helpful and benevolent, tolerant and thoughtful; and an unhealthful one, which by the great emphasis placed on her transgression, the keeping her forever under its ban and isolating her from her fellows, prepares her to break away from the long repression and lapse again into sin when she plans her flight. Roger Chillingworth is an embodiment of subtle and refined revenge.
The book though corresponding in its tone and burden to some of the shorter stories, had a more startling and dramatic character, and a strangeness, which at once took hold of a larger public than any of those had attracted. Though imperfectly comprehended, and even misunderstood in some quarters, it was seen to have a new and unique quality; and Hawthorne's reputation became national.
A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!