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Discussions with Davis

My Ántonia by Willa Cather
2025-10-29 19:00:00 2025-10-29 20:30:00 America/Chicago Discussions with Davis Highland Park Public Library - Brenner Room

Wednesday, October 29
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-10-29 19:00:00 2025-10-29 20:30:00 America/Chicago Discussions with Davis Davis Schneiderman, Executive Director of the Krebs Center for the Humanities and Professor of English at Lake Forest College, leads the book discussion of "My Ántonia" by Willa Cather. Highland Park Public Library - Brenner Room

Davis Schneiderman, Executive Director of the Krebs Center for the Humanities and Professor of English at Lake Forest College, leads the book discussion of "My Ántonia" by Willa Cather.

The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation immigrants.

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Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. 

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Discussion | Books & Authors |

TAGS: | Discussions with Davis | book discussion |

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