Wellington Classic Literature Group

Our December session runs on into Christmas drinks, so even if you haven't read the book, you're welcome to stop by after 7pm to meet us - or reconnect.

Set among the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York, Edith Wharton’s popular 1905 novel is a moving indictment of a society whose soul-crushing limitations destroy a woman too spirited to be contained by them. Will there be much mirth?

Plus Secret Santa time… If you'd like to take part, bring along a book to swap in our book group Secret Santa (classic literature, of course). If you don't want to, or don't get a chance to, that's totally fine too :)

VENUE
We meet in the ‘Games Room’, The Library's private area overlooking Courtenay Place. After you enter the bar, head to your right (up the step) and through a smaller space with booths to the large carpeted space beyond.

KOHA
We ask for a small koha (if you can) to help cover the Meetup subscription costs.

Our long summer read is John Steinbeck's 1952 novel East of Eden, the work he considered his magnum opus. "I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this."

Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons. A masterpiece of the Nobel Prize winning writer's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.

VENUE
We meet in the ‘Games Room’, The Library's private area overlooking Courtenay Place. After you enter the bar, head to your right (up the step) and through a smaller space with booths to the large carpeted space beyond.

KOHA
We ask for a small koha (if you can) to help cover the Meetup subscription costs.

March 2025 book group. Book chosen in December...

VENUE
We meet in the ‘Games Room’, The Library's private area overlooking Courtenay Place. After you enter the bar, head to your right (up the step) and through a smaller space with booths to the large carpeted space beyond.

KOHA
We ask for a small koha (if you can) to help cover the Meetup subscription costs.