Have you been following our Reading 1911 series, in which LMU librarians read and review popular books published during the year that our university was founded? If not, you can find the first three installations here:
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad (review by Glenn Johnson-Grau, Head of Collection Development)
Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser (review by Kristine Brancolini, Dean of the Library)
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (review by Meghan Weeks, Systems Librarian)
The response to this series so far has been fantastic, and we've received some questions about what's coming next. So here is a list of titles that we'll be reading and reviewing over the next few months:
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
The Outcry by Henry James
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson-Burnett
If you'd like to read along with us, copies of all of these books are available both in our library (click the book titles above) and through LINK+. These books are also all in the public domain, so if you have an e-reader, you can download and read the books for free! Here's a good place to look.
Also, if you want to pick a 1911 book and submit a review of your own, we'd love to feature it here! For more information, please contact Rhonda Rosen at rrosen@lmu.edu or 310.338.4584.
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