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Great Books Reading and Discussion Group with Tom

Please join us this month to discuss "The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad. This is a hybrid event.

Sample a “tasting menu” of great literature and philosophy in the library’s Great Books program, now in its seventeenth year. Participants find the Shared Inquiry™ approach, popularized by the Chicago-based Great Books Foundation, to be a powerful learning tool. Re-connect with an author you have loved, or discover a new one! Pick up a copy of the Great Conversations 1 anthology at the first floor Customer Services desk for a materials fee of $10. For more information, e-mail Tom Cohn at tom_cohn@huntlib.org. Check out our blog at hplgreatbooks.blogspot.com.  This is a hybrid program. Registration is required to receive Zoom sign-in via email.  Please note there is no meeting in December.

Joseph Conrad was born in Poland and was a merchant mariner for many years.  He did not learn English until his early 20s.  After his years at sea, he settled in England and wrote fiction based on his experiences.  In time he gained critical acclaim for the seriousness of his work.  In “The Secret Sharer,” a ship’s captain newly appointed to his command, who wonders if he “should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one’s own personality everyman set for himself secretly,” hauls a mysterious naked man aboard and hides him in his cabin.  The man had been a crewmember on another ship and had killed someone.  In the interplay of the two characters, Conrad weaves a chilling tale that touches on large themes of human destiny.

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