Gilmore Girls (2000)/S2E15 · Lost and Found/Rory at the book sale: Letters to a Young Poet

Gilmore Girls · Season 2, Episode 15, "Lost and Found"

Rory at the book sale: Letters to a Young Poet

Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) · The Stars Hollow book fundraiser

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Stars Hollow holds a buy-a-book fundraiser and Rory walks out with stacks. Two titles are readable on screen, Rilke and a courtroom play. A town that holds a meeting about everything sends her home with a play about a town that put a teacher on trial.

Sources: Rory's Books from the Buy a Book Fundraiser, The Annotated Gilmore Girls · The Real Rory Book List: Season Two, Oy With the Poodles

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Cover of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

1Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929 · letters

Rilke wrote these ten letters between 1903 and 1908 to a 19-year-old military cadet who'd mailed him some poems. The advice boils down to go inside yourself, which Rory has been doing with a book in her hand since the pilot.

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Cover of Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

2Inherit the Wind

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee · 1955 · play

Lawrence and Lee's 1955 play fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes trial, and they wrote it with McCarthyism in mind. Taylor Doose would have chaired the prosecution.

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