The December Great Books Zoom discussion will be on Wednesday, December11th, at 1:30 pm.

Our December reading for discussion will be Adalbert Stifter’s novella Rock Crystal, a 19th-century Christmas classic of German literature.  Stifter (1805-1868), who was Austrian, was among the most influential  German-language writers of his time.  With a kind of elegant simplicity, he tells a story of two children in the Austrian Alps visiting their grandparents the day before Christmas and trying to walk home in an increasingly deep and dangerous snowstorm.