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September 2026
CLASSICAL DRAMA
Aeschylus: The Oresteia (Tuesdays)
Aeschylus: The Oresteia (Thursdays)
POETRY & VISUAL ART
Why Read Dante? – A LitSalon Short (Free)
The Visionary Art of William Blake
Shakespeare’s Sonnets – The Slow Read #13
Paradise Lost, Book 1 – A Slow Read
DRAMA
Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great Part 1
TRAVEL
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse in Cornwall
LITERATURE
William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! – the second in our ‘Faulkner & His Children’ series
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain – later
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain – early
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever – A LitSalon Short (Free)
October 2026
CREATIVE WRITING
Loosening the Ligaments: A LitSalon Community of Writers – Block 4
ART & LITERATURE
POETRY
Dante’s Divine Comedy – Purgatorio
Why Read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? – A LitSalon Short (Free)
Grief(s): Collective, Private and Ecological Mourning
LITERATURE
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day
Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (later)
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time – The Guermantes Way (early)
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time – The Guermantes Way (later)
Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence
Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime – a LitSalon Short (Free)
TRAVEL
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves in Cornwall
November 2026
MUSIC
Wagner’s Ring Cycle – An Introduction
LITERATURE
Russian Short Stories – Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy & Gogol
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Herman Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener – A LitSalon Short (Free)
POETRY
Shakespeare’s Sonnets – The Slow Read #14
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
January 2027
DRAMA
John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
LITERATURE
Charles Dickens’ Bleak House
James Joyce’s Ulysses (early)
James Joyce’s Ulysses (late)
Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady
2027 Travel Studies
29 April – 6 May 2027: Medea in Greece
8-15 May 2027: Homer’s Odyssey in Greece
17 – 24 May 2027: The Bacchae & The Birds in Greece
Jane Eyre on the Moors in Edale, 29 July – 2 August 2027
Soon to be announced:
Virginia Woolf in Alfriston, East Sussex, 8-11 April & 15-18 April 2027 (two studies)
Moby Dick Afloat!, 13 – 19 September 2027
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