Bailey Cove Classics

Discusses classics from world literature including novels, novellas, short stories, plays, and epic poems. 

Meets the first Monday of every month at 10 a.m. at the Bailey Cove Branch Library, 1409 Weatherly Plaza Drive.

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Bailey Cove Branch Library
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Bailey Cove Classics: A Midsummer Night's Dream (May 7 2012 12:00pm)
Bailey Cove Classics: A Midsummer Night's Dream

From the hilarious mischief of the elf Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeare's marvelous A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play of enchantment and an insightful portrait of the predicaments of love.

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Bailey Cove Classics: The End of the Affair (Jun 4 2012 12:00am)
Bailey Cove Classics: The End of the Affair

In England during World War II, an American writer and the bored wife of a British civil servant fall in love. Then she mysteriously ends the affair.

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Bailey Cove Classics: Hadji Murad (Jul 2 2012 12:00am)
Bailey Cove Classics: Hadji Murad

In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murád, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamil’s prison, Hadji Murád was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle of his life, was killed.
 

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Bailey Cove Classics: The Wizard of Oz (Nov 5 2012 12:00am)
Bailey Cove Classics: The Wizard of Oz
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