Club Classics Pod

This week: Jane goes to London to get over Bingley, or as some would say, to stalk Bingley. Wickham is doxxed for his gold digging tendencies. Elizabeth visits Charlotte and Mr. Collins at their deeply grim marital home, where Lady Catherine de Bourgh will not leave anyone alone. Darcy conveniently runs into Elizabeth every day, on accident of course. Another botched proposal ensues. Lydia dreams of Brighton girl summer (just let the girl have some fun).Pride and Prejudice | Part 2

Welcome back to Season 2! We're recapping Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a comedy about five unmarried daughters, their matchmaking mother, and a town crawling with hot soldiers. This week: we meet the Bennets, Bingley arrives with his rich single friend Darcy, and Wickham stuns in army uniform. Who will couple up and who will become betrothed? Pride and Prejudice | Part 1

Our first deep cut — a bonus episode format for short picks between seasons. Today: The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who also married her cousin. TLDR: A woman is prescribed a "rest cure" by her doctor husband and confined to a room with ugly wallpaper. She is not allowed to write, work, or think. This goes about as well as you'd expect. The OG Year of Rest and Relaxation. We also announce our next book. See you in Season 2!

Heathcliff Reveals SHOCKING Secret; Readers STUNNEDTeaser for the finale episode of our Wuthering Heights coverage (Season 1)

The most dramatic season finale in Club Classics history. Cathy 2 goes on the world's worst date that ends in a kidnapping and forced cousin marriage. Edgar dies. Linton dies. Heathcliff reveals his necrophiliac tendencies and then dies. Cathy 2 and cousin Hareton break the cycle of generational trauma with adult literacy activism and kissing. This book is finally over! The final rose goes to... your cousin.Wuthering Heights Chapters 26-34.

Isabella escapes the frat house, moves to London, has a baby, and dies. Heathcliff seizes control of Wuthering Heights and begins a brutal merger and acquistion strategy on the moors. Cathy 2 grows up and meets her sickly and insufferable cousin Linton, arrived from London. We ask: which cousins will end up together? Why is everyone so sick? When will this book be over? Wuthering Heights Chapters 17-25.

We review the Emerald Fennell movie (it was fun, everyone relax). Isabella writes a letter to Nelly about her new life with Heathcliff. Shocker: it's not going well. In the advanced era of Victorian medical care, Cathy has a baby and promptly dies. Heathcliff asks to be haunted (careful what you wish for). We also discuss what jobs everyone would have in 2026. Cathy would be Trisha Paytas. Heathcliff would probably be in jail. Wuthering Heights Chapters 13-16.

Heathcliff returns to the moors but he's super hot now. His original plan was to commit a murder-suicide but he changes his mind and moves into Hindley's frat house down the road. The men bring awareness to gambling addiction. Isabella falls for local hottie Heathcliff, and Cathy has a psychotic break. Jealousy is a disease!Wuthering Heights Chapters 10-12.

Hindley returns from somewhere (college? war? Liverpool?) with a wife who immediately starts losing her mind. The children go feral. The Lintons are racist. Cathy gets a makeover and an engagement. Heathcliff runs away during a thunderstorm. We are also now offering spa packages at Wuthering Heights: the Nelly Makeover, the Thrushcross Grange special, and a leeching detox. Dog attack is available as an add-on.Wuthering Heights Chapters 6-9.

Sophia and Andri dive into "the greatest love story of all time" and ask, where is the love? We recap: two dog attacks, a ghost child scratching at a window, an orphan who might be demonic, a death, and not a single romantic moment. Everyone is morally bankrupt. The moors are barren. There is no fruit. Wuthering Heights Chapters 1-5.