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Beyond the Walls Book Chat — 113 episodes

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1

Pride & Prejudice: Proposal the Second

2

Pride & Prejudice: Irony & Self-Awareness

3

Pride & Prejudice: Proposal the First

4

Pride & Prejudice: A Cast of Characters

5

Jane Austen in Real Life

6

Anne of Green Gables: Symbols, Motifs, & Themes, Oh My!

7

Anne of Green Gables: Kindred Spirits

8

Anne of Green Gables and the Impact of Opening Lines

9

The Multifaceted L.M. Montgomery

10

Welcome to God's Spoken World

11

Frankenstein's Finale: The Authority of an Author

12

Nature vs Nurture, Perspectives from Great Literature

13

Frankenstein's Pathos: Make Me Happy

14

The Deadly Consequences of Frankenstein's Actions

15

Is Victor Frankenstein An Unreliable Narrator?

16

The Novel Frankenstein & Pitfalls of Romanticism

17

The Trials & Tribulations of Mary Shelley

18

An Insufferable Idea

19

Reading Overview of 2025

20

The Scapegoat: John v Jean

21

The Banned Master

22

The Weight of the d'Urbervilles

23

What Are We Reading?

24

Macbeth Act V: A Walking Shadow

25

Macbeth Act IV: Something Wicked

26

Macbeth Act III: Blood Will Have Blood

27

Macbeth Act II: Death's Counterfeit

28

Macbeth Act I: Tempting Fate

29

The Scottish Play

30

Soup of Stories

31

The Aeneid: A Leader Wins

32

The Aeneid: A Leader Prepares

33

The Aeneid: A Leader Moves Forward

34

The Aeneid: A Leader Falls

35

The Aeneid: A Leader is Rising

36

The Roman Epic

37

Dracula: On the Hunt

38

Dracula: Two Layers of Seeing

39

Dracula: The Invasion

40

Dracula: Building Terror

41

Dracula: Character Development

42

The Unrepressed Novel

43

Definitions and Suggestions

44

The Case for Old Books

45

An Indispensable Instrument

46

Storytellers Rule Society

47

Everything on a Waffle

48

Bridge to Growing Up

49

A Rabbit Hill Worldview

50

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

51

Caddie Woodlawn

52

Number the Stars: Standard of Leadership

53

Amos Fortune: Free Man

54

Carry On, Mr Bowditch

55

Color of Thoughts

56

Deep Heaven Descends

57

A Man of Straw

58

Merlin

59

Mr. Fisher-King

60

Stuck in a Spider's Web

61

War of Words

62

A Fairy Tale

63

Perelandra: Blessed Be He

64

Perelandra: From the Garden to the Cave

65

Perelandra: Dualism

66

Perelandra: An Unfathomable Task

67

The Pulse of Perelandra

68

Out of the Silent Planet: Lessons from Malacandra

69

Out of the Silent Planet

70

The Ransom Trilogy

71

The Stable

72

The Last Battle

73

The Magician's Nephew

74

The Horse and His Boy

75

Allegory Rabbit Trail

76

The Silver Chair

77

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

78

Prince Caspian

79

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

80

The Screwtape Letters

81

The Great Divorce

82

Who Was C.S. Lewis?

83

One Last Look over Paradise Lost

84

Books Eleven & Twelve: Providence Their Guide

85

Book Ten: The Ripple Effect

86

Book Nine: The Fall part 2

87

Book Nine: The Fall part 1

88

Book Eight: Adam

89

Book Seven: The First Mover

90

Book Six: Let it Profit Thee

91

Book Five: A Perfect Example

92

Book Four: A Universal Longing

93

Book Three: From the Beginning

94

Book Two: Settling for Less

95

Book One: The Epic Victim

96

Paradise Lost: A Bird's Eye View

97

The World that Shaped Paradise Lost

98

The Picture of Dorian Gray

99

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

100

The Best Book of 1998

101

Dame Agatha Christie

102

The Making of a Good Mystery

103

Is Beowulf an Epic?

104

Get the Message to Garcia

105

What Makes a Book Sticky?

106

Anna Karenina: The Meaning of Life

107

Anna Karenina: Don't Follow Your Heart

108

Howards End: Only Connect...

109

Singing the Song of the Hero

110

The Phantom Tollbooth

111

The Genius of Chesterton

112

Fahrenheit 451: The Books Must Survive

113

Introduction