Brattleboro Great Books Group

The BRATTLEBORO GREAT BOOKS GROUP will be discussing SONS and LOVERS, by D.H. Lawrence, on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd, 2026, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., in the Mezzanine Quiet Reading Room of the Brooks Memorial Library. The January meeting was cancelled, and reading/discussion was deferred due to inclement weather and illness of several members.

Sons and Lovers is one of the most perceptive novels on the dialectical relationship between mothers and sons (and daughters, too)! His first major novel, this work closely parallels Lawrence’s own life.

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For Mon. March 2nd, the group will be discussing Dostoyevsky’s THE DEVILS (a.k.a. The DAEMONS or THE POSSESSED), one of his most complicated, and messy, novels. How can I describe it? As an adult, existential “CAT in a HAT,” but with the anarchic “Thing One” and “Thing Two” multiplied to perhaps a half-dozen malevolent “Things!” Get started early, as this is 650 pp., complete with Russian names and patronames, is worth the effort for its deep psychological, philosophical and religious insights.

For further information, email Michael Landis at emagicmtman@gmail.com, or call him at (802) 257-1851. In case of inclement weather, the discussion will be again deferred.