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"Undine Spragg — how can you?"
Welcome to Week 1 of The Custom of the Country!
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☕️ back-to-school advice from Dr. Haley
Take your personal syllabus to the next level
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Up next: More Edith Wharton!
Our next read-a-long starts September 15!
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"the rich helpless family, stranded in lonely splendour"
Week 2 | Analyzing chapter 1 and getting into our next chapters
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warm printer paper and a spiral binding
on creating a custom textbook for yourself + a free PDF to make your own
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The Closely Reading Book Club
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"the rich helpless family, stranded in lonely splendour"
Week 2 | Analyzing chapter 1 and getting into our next chapters
Sep 22 • haley larsen, phd
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"Undine Spragg — how can you?"
Welcome to Week 1 of The Custom of the Country!
Sep 14 • haley larsen, phd
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here comes another read-a-long!
Diving back into Edith Wharton + what Anita Brookner has to say about a 1913 classic of American Naturalism
Sep 10 • haley larsen, phd
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Literary inspiration, delivered weekly
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☕️ back-to-school advice from Dr. Haley
Take your personal syllabus to the next level
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a sneak peek
into more coming your way from Closely Reading
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Middlemarch is basically Stars Hollow
If you love Gilmore Girls, you're gonna love this George Eliot classic.
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