LEADER
Melanie Blake is the director of Classical Pursuits. She has led online seminars on the works of Leila Slimani, WWI poets, Henry James, and much more. She studied English and French at Fordham University and the Université de Montpellier, and linguistics at the University of Nottingham. In May 2025 she’ll be leading the Classical Pursuits tour Art and Resistance in Paris and Champagne.
BOOK
All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
Scribner (2014)
ISBN-13: 978-1501173219
What does it mean to own your own life? What forms does power take? How can fiction deal most effectively with Nazism, a notoriously difficult topic to write about?
We will take on these questions and more in a seminar on Anthony Doerr’s 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See. This fast-paced book offers many avenues for discussion around themes of love, family, agency and guilt.
This seminar is a perfect companion to our April 2025 tour Art and Resistance in Paris and Champagne. Tour registrants take $150 off the registration price.
Practical details
Once you register, you’ll get an order confirmation. We’ll send you the Zoom link and a welcome letter from your leader about 3 weeks before the seminar starts.
Classical Pursuits will record this seminar, and make each session privately available to registered participants for up to two weeks after that session.
Online seminar payments are nonrefundable. Discount codes must be used at the time of purchase.
Seminar group sizes are a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 12. See full terms and conditions for Classical Pursuits online seminars. By registering for a seminar, you agree to abide by our code of conduct.
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