Past Readings at the Literary Institute
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| 1. August 1 - Stories & a prose poem by OSCAR WILDE: ��� "The Canterville Ghost" ��� "The Remarkable Rocket" ��� "The House of Judgement" |
| 2. August 7 - A MONUMENTAL TALE ��� "Man-Sized in Marble" by Edith Nesbit |
| 3. August 14 - CURIOUS CIRCUMNAVIGATIONS: Excerpts from ��� Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days and ��� Nellie Bly's Around the World in Seventy-Two Days |
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4. August 21 - TWO SINGULAR DETECTIVES ��� Sax Rohmer's Moris Klaw, Dream Detective in ����� "The Case of the Ivory Statue" and ��� Ernest Bramah's Max Carrados in ����� "The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage |
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5. August 28 - VICTORIAN PRECOCIOUSNESS ��� Daisy Ashford's The Young Visiters |
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1. July 10 - Selections from FLANN O'BRIEN:
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| 2. July 17 - A scandalous MEMOIR of the haut monde |
3. July 24 - A sampling of T. H. White
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| 1. June 5 - TALLY-HO! ��� Selections from Anthony Trollope's Hunting Sketches: ��� "The Man Who Hunts and Doesn't Like It" ��� "The Lady Who Rides to Hounds" ��� "The Hunting Parson" ��� "How to Ride to Hounds" |
| 2. June 12 - EGYPTIAN WEEK ��� "Lot No. 249" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ��� "The Unwrapping of a Mummy" by Th�ophile Gautier |
| 3. June 19 - The TISH saga continues! ��� "Salvage" by Mary Roberts Rinehart |
| 4. June 26 - FOOLS RUSH IN ��� "The Biter Bit" by Wilkie Collins |
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| 1. May 3 ��� A humorous story by Mary Roberts Rinehart. |
| 2. May 10 ���"The Gold Bug" and "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 3. May 17 ��� Love and Friendship by Jane Austen |
| 4. May 24 ��� "My Favorite Murder" and "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot" ��� by Ambrose Bierce |
APRIL 2000
1. Six stories by Saki:"Mrs. Packletide's Tiger"2. Three stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
"The Stampeding of Lady Bastable"
"The Unrest Cure"
"Sredni Vashtar"
"The Way to the Dairy"
"The Recessional"
"The Squire's Story"3. Selections from Jerome K. Jerome's
"Right at Last"
"The Old Nurse's Story"
Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Current Readings at the Literary Institute
