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A Case For Classics
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It's finally here! The Dickens Episode! It's okay to have complicated feelings about the man, but we have to admit that his works are important to our society and culture. Some of them, at least.
It's the last episode, but it's not too sad. I'm not going anywhere...not really.
Winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize, To Kill a Mockingbird is still an important piece of American literature, we just need to adjust some things.
Talking about the 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Not gonna lie, Hemingway is most of the focus...but he should be.
This is a quick one, just some tidbits about the Pulitzer Prize before we begin our series on works that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Recast of original Episode 5, I get to talk about on of my favorite works ever, classic or not, Beowulf!
The Master and Margarita is one of the few books I'll cover on this podcast that actually has a rabid fanbase. So my job is easy, right?
Juiced up recast of Episode 4 with some extra material. Oscar Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Grey are the case.
Puliter Prize winning American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay is this case today.
This week's case is about Irish poet William Butler Yeats and his works.
This isn't a full re-cast of Episode 3, this is mostly new material of me explaining why, OH WHY, I don't like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Let's get weird this week as we talk H.G. Wells' classic The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Recast of Episode 2 where I made a case for Gustave Flaubert's classics work Madame Bovary.
Joseph Conrad's work Heart of Darkness is the case this week, but I somehow added more love for T.S. Eliot and Hunter S. Thompson.
I'm going back and redoing some of my earlier episodes, improving and adding a bit. Today's is Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451!
I read the wrong translation! Oh well, we're still going to talk about the woman who wrote this work, The Tale of Genji, and about the time in Japanese history that it represents. Good trivia here!
In honor of Black History Month, I talk about Frederick Douglass and, like, a fraction of his accomplishments. He was incredible.
Shirley Jackson is the whole case this week. I've found that not only do I need to read more of her work, I also need to read a biography on her as well!
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell is a great British book that has nothing to do with the American Civil War...I now know. But it's a fantastic read that I'm glad I found.
I'm back on poetry this week and I discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his works.
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