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Lecture: Wealth & Wonder, Longing & Loss: Fitzgerald's: The Great Gatsby
Thursday, January 21
Rosecliff, 548 Bellevue Avenue
11:00 a.m.
Eileen Warburton, Historian and Big Read Project Lead Scholar
Americans have always believed that we may each make ourselves anew. Self-invented and self-defined, the individual may striver harder, reach higher, and achieve a glory of his own making. Can the glory be grasped? Is there a dark cost beyond what we imagined No work of American literature is a clearer, more poignant expression of our national dream than F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1924 masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Join Big Read Project Lead Scholar Eileen Warburton, PhD., in the evocative setting of Rosecliff to examine Fitzgerald's novel in its time--and ponder its echoes in our own day.
Admission is free, but space is limited and advance registration is requested. Call (401) 847-1000 ext. 154, or register online.
The Great Gatsby Winter Series lectures and events are part of a community-wide reading project with the Newport Public Library. This project is funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read program.
Read The Great Gatsby and form a discussion group! The Newport Public Library will host a series of discussion groups throughout the winter. For dates, times and locations, visit www.newportlibraryri.org.
For more information on The Big Read, visit www.NEABigRead.org.
Click here for the full calendar of events.
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