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The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West. [1] It was adapted as the Oscar-nominated motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956. [2] The book consists of 14 vignettes about a Quaker farming family, [3] the Birdwells, living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana [1] along "the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the woods stretched, dark row on row."
By 1939, the Right Book Club claimed 20,000 subscribers, in comparison with some 50,000 members of the Left Book Club and 5,000 of the National Book Association. On 3 November 1939, the humorist A. G. Macdonell replied to an invitation from Christina Foyle to join the Club, "I had no idea that there were twenty thousand members of the Right in ...
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group . Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries , bookstores , online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
The Jane Austen Book Club is a 2004 novel by American author Karen Joy Fowler.The story, which takes place near Sacramento, California, centers around a book club consisting of five women and one man [1] who meet once a month to discuss Jane Austen's six novels (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey).
Book club may refer to: Book discussion club, a group of people who meet to discuss a book or books that they have read Literature circle, a group of students who meet in a classroom to discuss a book or books that they have read; Book sales club, a subscription-based method of selling and purchasing books
Jeymes Samuel’s controversial, “The Book of Clarence” film sparks conversation about acknowledging the divine in ourselves and others. “Notes on […] The post ‘Peace to the God ...
Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian: Verdensbiblioteket) is a series of classical books, mostly novels, published by the Norwegian Book Clubs [] since 2002. It is based on a list of the hundred best books, as proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Book Club. [1]
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America is a 2001 book by Louis Menand, an American writer and legal scholar, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History.The book recounts the lives and intellectual work of the handful of thinkers primarily responsible for the philosophical concept of pragmatism, a principal feature of American philosophical achievement: William James, Oliver ...