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August 2026
CLASSICAL DRAMA
Euripides: Trojan Women & The Bacchae
DRAMA
The Fatal Genius of Christopher Marlowe – a LitSalon Short (Free)
LITERATURE & FILM
Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice – word & image (Mondays)
Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice – word & image (Fridays)
LITERATURE
Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Vladimir Nabokov’s Signs and Symbols – a LitSalon Short (Free)
TRAVEL
Moby Dick afloat (FULLY BOOKED)
September 2026
CLASSICAL DRAMA
Aeschylus: The Oresteia (Tuesdays)
Aeschylus: The Oresteia (Thursdays)
POETRY & VISUAL ART
Why Read Dante? – A LitSalon Short (Free)
The Visionary Art of William Blake
Shakespeare’s Sonnets – The Slow Read #13
Paradise Lost, Book 1 – A Slow Read
DRAMA
Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great Part 1
TRAVEL
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse in Cornwall
LITERATURE
William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! – the second in our ‘Faulkner & His Children’ series
W.G. Sebald The Emigrants
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain – later
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain – early
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever – A LitSalon Short (Free)
October 2026
POETRY
Dante’s Divine Comedy – Purgatorio
Why Read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? – A LitSalon Short (Free)
Grief(s): Collective, Private and Ecological Mourning
LITERATURE
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time – The Guermantes Way (early)
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time – The Guermantes Way (later)
Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence
Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime – a LitSalon Short (Free)
TRAVEL
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves in Cornwall
November 2026
LITERATURE
Russian Short Stories – Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy & Gogol
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Herman Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener – A LitSalon Short (Free)
POETRY
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
January 2027
LITERATURE
Charles Dickens’ Bleak House
James Joyce’s Ulysses (early)
James Joyce’s Ulysses (late)
Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady
2027 Travel Studies
29 April – 6 May 2027: Medea in Greece
8-15 May 2027: Homer’s Odyssey in Greece
17 – 24 May 2027: The Bacchae & The Birds in Greece
Jane Eyre on the Moors in Edale, 29 July – 2 August 2027
Soon to be announced:
Virginia Woolf in Alfriston, East Sussex, 8-11 April & 15-18 April 2027 (two studies)
Moby Dick Afloat!, 13 – 19 September 2027
2026 Travel Studies
Travel studies planned for 2026 include our second Moby Dick Afloat voyage, trips to Alfriston to explore the writing of Virginia Woolf, and visits to the Greek island of Agistri to read Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Odyssey. Click on the page links below to read more about these travel studies and arrangements for booking, or to register your interest.
April 2026: Virginia Woolf in Alfriston (COMPLETED)
April 2026: Virgil’s Aeneid in Greece (FULLY BOOKED)
May 2026: Homer’s Odyssey in Greece (FULLY BOOKED)
June 2026: Jane Eyre on the Moors (FULLY BOOKED)
August 2026: Moby Dick Afloat – WE HAVE NOW CLOSED APPLICATIONS FOR THIS STUDY IN 2026, PLEASE EMAIL US IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PUT ON A LIST OF READERS INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR VOYAGE IN 2027 (13-19 SEPTEMBER).
September 2026: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse in St Ives (FULLY BOOKED)
October 2026: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves in St Ives
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