Summer 2020: Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. Join us for a series of discussions with Dickens Project Director, John O. Jordan, about how one of the first known historical novels may have inspired Charles Dickens.
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June 28 |
Waverley: General Preface and Volume I, Chapters 1-23 |
John O. Jordan, Director of the Dickens Project and Professor Emeritus of Literature, UCSC and David Brownell, Friends fo the Dickens Project Board Member |
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July 26 |
Waverley: Volume II, |
John O. Jordan, Director of the Dickens Project and Professor Emeritus of Literature, UCSC and David Brownell, Friends fo the Dickens Project Board Member | |
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August 23 |
Postponed due to the CZU Lightning Strike Complex wildfires. |
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September 27 |
Waverley: Volume III, |
John O. Jordan, Director of the Dickens Project and Professor Emeritus of Literature, UCSC and David Brownell, Friends fo the Dickens Project Board Member | |
Suggested editions: We recommend the Penguin Classics or Oxford World’s Classics editions of Waverley. Other versions are fine, but we do suggest one with a glossary that translates the Gaelic vocabulary.
Support for the reading group is provided by the Santa Cruz Public Libraries.
