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Sorry, anyone who came to chat today. I had some technical issues and was unable to connect to you. Hope you enjoyed Mrs. Dalloway!
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Catcher in the Rye is next selection
The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults,the novel has become a common part of high school and college curricula throughout the English-speaking world; it has also been translated into almost all of the world's major languages.Around 250,000 copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than sixty-five million.The novel's antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion .
The novel was among the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005 as chosen by Time, and named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the United States for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and teenage angst.
Read it and see what all the fuss is about!
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Our next book will be F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby. The story is narrated by Nick Carraway, who after serving in World War I moves from the midwest to New York's Long Island. There he picks up with a college friend Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy, Caraway's second cousin—a feckless, self-indulgent couple of privilege. He also befriends his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, whose mansion is the scene of lavish nightly parties. Gatsby reveals to Caraway that, as a young man without wealth, he had met and fallen in love with Daisy during the war. Now moneyed, Gatsby is obsessed with winning her back. What follows are the tragic consequences of his pursuit—and Carraway's return to his roots in the midwest to contemplate, with new found cynicism, the moral decay and carelessness of privileged.
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