Category: Classics
2022 Adult Reading Challenge! September
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2022/09/02/2022-adult-reading-challenge-september/
DISCOVER DIFFERENT GENRES! FIND NEW AUTHORS! WIN PRIZES! Join us for a fun book challenge throughout 2022! Sign up and keep track via Beanstack. If you’ve participated in any of our recent summer or winter reading challenges, you’re all set to go...
Everything Old is New Again, Part 2
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2018/01/02/everything-old-is-new-again-part-2/
Did you love reading and/or listening to Fairy Tales and Folk Tales as a child? Adult versions of these same tales have been showing up for years, and have become very popular. Here are some of our favorites: THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey...
Everything Old is New Again, Part 1
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2017/12/08/everything-old-is-new-again-part-1/
If you like reading the classics, you may be interested in some of the new interpretations that have come out in the past few years. One publisher, Hogarth, has a series of Shakespeare tales retold by some of today’s most popular authors. Here is...
Harry of Monmouth
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/12/05/harry-of-monmouth/
Title: Harry of Monmouth Author: A. M. Maughan Publisher: W. Sloane Associates, 1956 Summary: This classic novel brings to life Henry V, the victor of Agincourt. From the loss of his mother as a boy to generational based conflicts with his father, Henry IV, and sibling rivalry with his...
Complete Stories
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/11/20/complete-stories/
Title: The Complete Stories Author: Flannery O’Connor Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971 Summary: When I travel, I like to read books written by authors from that part of the world. So, on a recent trip to Savannah, I finally picked up A Good...