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Dominican Book Club Discusses The Collector
Dominican University’s Book Club will meet on Thursday, January 27 to discuss The Collector, the novel that launched the career of John Fowles. The book club meets at 7:00 p.m. in Room 003 of the Rebecca Crown Library on the main campus, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.
The Collector, an existential thriller published to acclaim in 1963, tells the story of a lonely butterfly collector who becomes obsessed with a beautiful young art student in London. He eventually kidnaps and holds her prisoner, as prized as the butterflies he collects. The author provides an interesting character study of both the collector who spirals more deeply into madness and the young woman who reveals herself through the journal she keeps during her captivity.
For more information about Dominican University’s Book Club, contact Mary Pat Fallon at (708) 524-6870 or at mpfallon@dom.edu.
Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Graduate School of Business and Information Systems, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the Institute for Adult Learning. In the 2005 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the seventh consecutive year.
“As a student I wanted an intimate community. As an aspiring journalist I wanted a big city. Dominican gave me both—and so much more.”
Tracy Samantha
Schmidt
2005
TIME Magazine
