PES Classics Book Club - Monday, September 7 at 7:00 PM at Philadelphia Ethical Society in Rittenhouse, PhiladelphiaRittenhouse

PES Classics Book Club

Monday, September 7 at 7:00 PM·7:00 p.m.·Rittenhouse·Philadelphia Ethical Society

PES Classics Book Club

Posted to Rittenhouse on August 26, 2026

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Mon, Sep 7 at 7pm

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Philadelphia Ethical Society

1906 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103

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

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