“The marriage plot” by Jeffrey Eugenides “Eugenides describes a year or so in the lives of three college seniors at Brown in the early 80s. There is Madeleine, a self-described "incurable romantic" who is slightly embarrassed at being so normal. There is Leonard, a brilliant, temperamental student from the Pacific Northwest. And completing the triangle
New session of the English reading club "English Reading Circle" with Peter Savaiano as moderator. To learn about contemporary American literature through the reading and discussion of short stories from online literary magazines, which can be read for free over the Internet on the magazines' websites. The
“The marriage plot” by Jeffrey Eugenides “It's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wise-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen