The AM Book Group meets the fourth Wednesday of the month (except December)  

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad (1907; 245 pages). Things turn out to be not quite that simple after all for London shopkeeper (and secret agent) Mr. Verloc when he gets embroiled in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory.

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The AM Book Group meets the fourth Wednesday of the month (except December)  

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1953, 280 pages). Fourteen-year-old John Grimes is the stepson of a Pentecostal preacher in Harlem during the Depression. This novel spans a single day in his life, but encompasses his family’s troubled past and his longings for the future.

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The AM Book Group meets the fourth Wednesday of the month (except December)  

The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck (1961, 336 pages). Ethan Allen Hawley works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned, no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic
class. Steinbeck’s last novel is set in 1960 America and explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty.

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The AM Book Group meets the fourth Wednesday of the month (except December)  

The First of July by Julia Speller (2013, 350 pages). The lives of four very different men, Frank, Benedict, Jean-Batiste, and Harry intersect on the most terrible and destructive day of World War I, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

This discussion is part of Ridgefield Remembers WWI, a town-wide commemoration of the end of World War I.

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The AM Book Group meets the fourth Wednesday of the month (except December)  

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855, 480 pages). Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skillfully explores issues of
class and gender in nineteenth century English society, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers conflicts with her growing attraction to the mill owner, John Thornton.

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The AM Book Group meets the fourth Wednesday of the month (except December)  

The Awkward Age by Henry James (1898, 400 pages). This novel about the complications created in a family's social set by a young girl coming of age represents the decadence and corruption of English fin de siècle life.

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