Fall 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog 

Exploring The World Through Short Fiction (H337)

H – Literature

Fiction often uses culture to paint vivid portraits of the character of individual people. This course investigates various cultures through literature. Within each country, writers find new literary techniques, themes and styles to reveal that country’s or era’s values — artistic, moral and intellectual. Class examines texts from various time periods for each country in an effort to broaden perspectives. Stories are available online at no cost and are 60 pages or less.

This offering meets for a total of 13 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Leslie Healey

HEALEY, LESLIE — M.A., Case Western Reserve University, B.A., University of Delaware. Retired high school, college and middle school English teacher. Still reads too much and enjoys sharing great literature with others. Special interests include British literature, speculative fiction and contemporary literature/art. (H337)

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