Through the Pages

In this episode, we delve into another German classic: Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. Published in 1911, this novella tells the story of an ageing author and his trip to Venice which - plot twist - is his slow journey into death. We discuss the story’s problematic main character, Mann’s writing style, how it was a short but tough read, and how death is foreshadowed in the text. In our segment Top or Flop, we tell you about our month’s favourite reads and least loved books and answer a spontaneous bookish question.Find us on Instagram @ThroughthePagesPod and let us know what you thought about this novella.

In this episode, we chat about James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. This 1956 classic tells the story of a young American navigating his Parisian life and relationship with a man named Giovanni. We discuss the novel’s main character David and his relationships while unpacking the story’s topics of sexual identity, the idea of masculinity and internalized homophobia. In our segment Top or Flop, we tell you about our month’s favourite reads and least loved books and answer a spontaneous bookish question!Join us as we revisit this classic story and reflect on if and why it still resonates with readers today! Find us on Instagram @ThroughthePagesPod and let us know what you thought about this novel.

In this month's episode, we dive into S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, a coming-of-age novel that redefined young adult fiction - written by a young adult, for young adults. We explore the tensions between the Greasers and the Socs, unpack Ponyboy’s search for identity, and discuss the novel’s themes of class, loyalty, and belonging.Join us as we revisit this classic story and reflect on if and why it still resonates with readers today! Find us on Instagram @ThroughthePagesPod and let us know what you thought about this novel.

The Age of Innocence, published in 1920, earned Edith Wharton the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - making her the first woman to win the prize. The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class Gilded Age New York City. With a 1993 film adaptation directed by Martin Scorsese and featuring a star cast and a new Netflix adaptation in the works, The Age of Innocence is more present than ever. Your hosts - bookish friends Mandy & Fanny - want to know why. In this episode, they explore the love triangle at the heart of the novel and unpack the themes of love, duty, and social expectation of 1870s high society.Through the Pages is a podcast in which your hosts, Fanny and Mandy, read books that are considered classics, to figure out if they're worth your while - and to discover why they are amongst so-called "classics". Because books only truly come to live when you talk about them.

Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë was a controversial work to say the least! More than 100 years later it is considered one of the greatest novels of the English classics canon. In this episode we discuss our tragic heroes Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw and how - despite the frequent depiction in pop culture as such - this is everything but a love story! Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a Gothic Tragedy, published under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. Emily Brontë died one year after Wuthering Heights was published. Through the Pages is a podcast in which your hosts, Fanny and Mandy, read books that are considered classics, to figure out if they're worth your while - and to discover why they are amongst so-called "classics". Because books only truly come to live when you talk about them.