Mon, 23 January 2012
From January 2012 I'll be teaching two short courses in English literature in Brussels, Belgium. The classes will be fortnightly, fun, and very interactive. We'll be reading 5 books for each course, and each course fee is €75.00. Course 1: British political fiction 1900-1950 (17 Jan, 31 Jan, 14 Feb, 28 Feb, 13 March) Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands; Constance Maud, No Surrender; Rose Macaulay, Non-Combatants and Others; Goerge Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier; Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love. Download the course description in PDF here. Course 2: American women and work (17 April, 1 May, 15 May, 29 May, 5 June) Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl; Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country; Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark; Dorothy Canfield Fisher, The Home-Maker, Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer. Download the course description in PDF here. Want to know more? Send me a mail at kate.brussels [at] yahoo.com, and I'll send you the full course descriptions. Category:private classes
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Why I Really Like This Book (private classes)
These are podcasts about forgotten fiction, for curious readers, and for anyone who likes old books. Sometimes they're stories, sometimes they're not. Most of the authors write in English; and sometimes they don't. But all the books I talk about, I really really like. I hope you will too.
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