TUESDAYS Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, March 3

JOHN STEINBECK (24) Congress Hall at Prestwick Chase, 100 Saratoga Blvd., Saratoga Springs, 12866

Tuesdays, 9:30 – 11:00am, January 27, February 3, 10, 17, 24, March 3

 Nobel Prize winning novelist John Steinbeck was a prolific writer with a long career.  His concerns ranged from capitalism in America, to marine biology, to social and intimate human relationships. He was especially interested in materialism and morality. His novel of the Okies and the dust bowl migration to the false-Eden of California produced one of the most memorable novels in American literature. This Discussion Group will begin with two short stories and several novellas and end with The Grapes of Wrath. Along the way we will discuss The Winter of Our Discontent.

Week 1: Have read “The Leader of the People” and “The Chrysanthemums”

Week 2:  Have read Of Mice and Men and The Moon is Down

Week 3:  Have read The Winter of Our Discontent

 Week 4:  Have read the first third of The Grapes of Wrath

Week 5:  Have read the second third of The Grapes of Wrath

Week 6:  Finish The Grapes of Wrath

Texts: any texts for the novels, on-line for the short stories

Leader: Murray Levith has a Ph.D. in English from Syracuse University and is Professor Emeritus, Skidmore College. He has offered many literature courses for the Academy.