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Montrose Great Books candidates - Ballot for October 5, 2006

(Those attending will each have 6 votes to choose from this list.)

    ===Submitted by Sophia===

  1. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac (307 pages) first publ 1957
    often considered the defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was so affected by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences-- hundreds of references have real-world counterparts--thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. the soul of the Beat movement and literature
  2. THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES: NOTES ON A LATIN AMERICAN JOURNEY by Ernesto Che Guevarra (175 pages) publ 1993
    Travel diaries that capture the essence and exuberance of the young legend, Che Guevara. "By the end of the journey, a politicized Che Guevara has emerged to predict his own revolutionary future" - Time

    ===Submitted by Alice===

  3. THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Milan Kundera (314 pages) publ 1984
    Author is a nominee for the Man Booker International Prize and has won the highest literary award in the CSSR (Czech Republic) and other international literary awards.. --book deals heavily with philosophical concepts--depicts life for artists and intellectuals in Czechoslovakia after the USSR invaded- story of a famous surgeon (and his family) who criticizes the Czech Communists and as a result loses his position.
  4. A SIMPLE HEART by Gustave Flaubert (approx 100 pages) written 1876
    Deceptively simple story of a housemaid and her approach to a lifetime of servitude renders her mundane life with great beauty and psychological integrity, Available online at: http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/136/344/8571/frameset.html

    ===Submitted by Mary===

  5. JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte (321 pages) publ 1847
    --one of the most famous British romance novels of all time. The story is that of a governess who despite her plainness, captures the heart of her enigmatic employer, but soon discovers he has a secret that could jeopardize any hope of happiness between them. Though really too long to print, it is available on line for searching while you read at: http://www.19thnovels.com
  6. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O'Neill (192 pages) written 1942
    Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama in 1957.
    Widely considered to be his masterwork. The action covers a fateful, heart-wrenching day in August of 1912 at a seaside Connecticut home - the autobiographical representations of O'Neill himself, his brother, and their parents

    ===Submitted by Carol===

  7. THE BOSTONIANS by Henry James (414 pages) publ 1886
    Verena Tarrant arouses the passions of two very different people: Olive Chancellor, a Boston-bred suffragette, who wants to make Verena a campaigner for women's rights and Basil Ransom, a Mississippi-bred lawyer, who wants to make her his wife.
  8. BLINDNESS by Jose Saramago (292 pages) Engl trans publ 1998
    Saramago is the only Portuguese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature which he won in 1988.
    This book explores loss and disorientation in a modern city in which every person but one becomes blind.

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