PES Classics Book Club
Mon, Feb 02
|Philadelphia
In anxious times, reading literature produces paradoxical rewards. First, great novels offer an escape. (This is fiction, after all.) But the classics also show us how others have grappled—imaginatively, intellectually, and empathically—with the kinds of threats, injustices, and upheaval that still
Time & Location
Feb 02, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Philadelphia, 1906 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
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About the event
Monday, February 2, 7 PM-9 PM
Philadelphia Ethical Society, 1906 Rittenhouse Square, Collier Room
Classic Books in Troubled Times Book Club: The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. (Sound familiar?) Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart
RSVP to Leigh Buchanan (leighebuchanan@gmail.com)