The First Few Pages: Recent Episodes
Caroline Zeeman
Take a taste of a classic book. Full of interesting facts and background on classic works of literature, but just the first few pages.
This week Caroline tells us all about the Queen of Crime Agatha Christie and her first Poirot novel, the Mysterious Affair at Styles -- find the book at gutenberg.org -- contact us on Twitter or Facebook
Learn about this "the best of all possible worlds" with Caroline as she discusses Voltaire and his novella Candide -- A Carleton Place Public Library podcast -- Find the book at gutenberg.org -- Find Carleton Place Public Library on FB, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
This week Caroline discussed medieval courtly love, renaissance humanism, and how to survive isolation with Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron -- Find the book on Project Gutenberg -- Contact us on Twitter @cplibrary
This week Caroline tells of the dichotomy of Spiritualism and Logic that was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the 3rd Sherlock Holmes book The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Find the book at gutenberg.org/ebooks/2852 -- Find us at carletonplacelibrary.ca
This week Caroline talks about the Goth Queen Mary Shelley and her most famous novel, Frankenstein -- Find us on FB (Carleton Place Public Library) on Twitter (@cplibrary) and on Instagram (@cplibrary) -- Get the book at gutenberg.org
Caroline talks about Jane Austen and her novel Pride and Prejudice. -- Sources: Wikipedia.org and Biography.com -- Find the book here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342