Lenoir-Rhyne To Hold Great Books Discussion Group For Community

Lenoir-Rhyne College will once again offer a free Great Books class for the community during the fall semester.

The group will read and discuss selected works of literature. It will meet at 7 p.m. on every other Tuesday, beginning Aug. 29. The Great Books class will meet in the Guest House behind the Admissions Building on campus. Marianne and Larry Yoder will serve as co-leaders.

The Great Books courses are offered through the Lineberger Center for Cultural and Educational Renewal. The only cost to participants is the cost of the textbook, which is available in the Lenoir-Rhyne College Bookstore, located in the Cromer Center on campus.

This year’s Great Books topic is “The Evil and the Guilty.” The following works will be discussed on the following dates: Aug. 29, Tolstoy’s “After the Ball;” Sept. 12, Nietzsche’s “On Evil, Guilt and Power;” Sept. 26, Musil’s “Moosbrugger”; Oct. 10, Johnson’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice;” Oct. 31, Dostoevsky’s “Stavrogin’s Confession;” Nov. 14, Coleridge’s poetry; Nov. 28, Summary Discussion.

To register for this course, contact Beverly Hefner at 828-328-7376 or hefnerb@lrc.edu.

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