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Crack The Book: A Beginner's Guide to Reading the Great Books — 111 episodes
The Known Unknowns of the Iliad
Who Is the Real Enemy? The Iliad, Books 1-6
The Greatest Stories Ever Told? Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid
Shakespeare's As You Like It: A Comedy You Can Fall In Love With
The Hits (and Misses!) of a Travel-Wise Reading List
The Best Brontë You Haven't Read
The REAL Henry V: Shakespeare v. Dan Jones
The Greatest King? Shakespeare's Henry V
England, God, and Everything: Bijan Omrani's God is an Englishman
What if Joey Tribbiani had been born in 1740?
Happy Birthday America!
A Fat Knight and a King: Henry IV Part 2 and Falstaff
Who Started English History? Venerable Bede Speaks.
Reading My Way to England
From the Mississippi to Macondo: Huckleberry Finn and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Reading As A Superpower
Kings and Princes: Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One
Let's Go! Season Three Kick-Off
I Get Knocked Down...and I Get Up Again. Week 17: The Golden Ass [REPLAY]
Born in the U.S.A. Week 39: A Handful of 19th Century American Writers [REPLAY]
Everything's going to be okay. Week 25 (2): Dante's Divine Comedy, Paradiso [REPLAY]
Fate Up Against Your Will. Week 26: Shakespeare's Hamlet, MacBeth and King Lear [REPLAY]
CtB Replay: Wouldn't It Be Good (To Live in Their World?). Week 30: Cervantes' Don Quixote and Moliére's Tartuffe [REPLAY]
Right Here, Right Now. Looking Back at Season 2–and Ahead to Season 3!
Once in a Lifetime. Week 52: Stories about Humans with Didion, Butler, Wallace and O'Brien
Welcome to the Machine. Week 51: Brave New World
Freeze Frame. Week 50: Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin, and José Ortega y Gassett
C’est Si Bon. Week 49: Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and René Girard
Strange Magic. Week 48: Kafka, Borges, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wide Open Fiction. Week 47: The American Short Story
Is it all in your head? Week 46: Sigmund Freud
Can You Write Light? Week 45: Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot
But is it ART? Week 44: James Joyce and Samuel Beckett
Change Is Gonna Come. Week 43: Frederick Douglass and W.E.B DuBois
No Flowers, Please. Week 42: Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil and Gustave Flaubert's Trois Contes
Still Life with Feeling. Week 41: Henry James' Spoils of Poynton and Marcel Proust's Swann's Way
Reach Out and Touch Faith. Week 40: Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Frederich Nietzsche
Born in the U.S.A. Week 39: A Handful of 19th Century American Writers
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen. Bonus! Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Two Logical Guys. Week 38: Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and John Stuart Mill's On Liberty
You Can’t Hurry Love. Week 37: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
You Say You Want a Revolution? Week 36: The U.S. Constitution, The Communist Manifesto, and A Vindication of the Rights of Women
When Poetry is the New Sensation. Week 35: Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, and the Romantic Poets
Bizarre Love Triangle. Week 34: Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther
Under Pressure. Week 33: Descartes' Discourse on the Method, Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Spinoza's Ethics.
Cultivate Your Garden. Week 32: Rousseau's Confessions and Voltaire's Candide
When Reason Became Unreasonable. Week 31: Machievelli's The Prince and Rousseau's The Social Contract
Wouldn't It Be Good (To Live in Their World?). Week 30: Cervantes' Don Quixote and Moliére's Tartuffe
True Colors, Renaissance Artists. Week 29: Vasari's Lives of the Artists and Cellini's Autobiography
A Smooth Criminal, and a Great King. Week 28: Shakespeare's Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2) and Othello
Fools for Love. Week 27: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Tempest
Fate Up Against Your Will. Week 26: Shakespeare's Hamlet, MacBeth and King Lear
Everything's going to be okay. Week 25 (2): Dante's Divine Comedy, Paradiso
Learning to Fly. Week 25 (1): Dante's Divine Comedy, Purgatorio
Brothers in Arms. Week 24: Dante's Divine Comedy, Inferno
The Halftime Report: What I've Learned About How to Read Classics (so far)
What is Love? Week 23: Abelard and Heloise, and Troubadour Poetry
I Ran (So Far Away). Week 22: Sundiata and The Mwindo Epic
Avalon. Week 21: Canterbury Tales and Le Morte D'Arthur
Running up that Hill (to God). Week 20: The Confessions of St. Augustine
Eye of the Tiger, Heart of a Monk. Week 19: The Bhagavad Gita and the Rule of St. Benedict
Rock the Casbah. Week 18: The Arabian Nights
I Get Knocked Down...and I Get Up Again. Week 17: The Golden Ass
Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting. Week 16: Sun Tzu and Lao Tzu
Don't Dream It's Over. Week 15: Boethius and The Consolation of Philosophy
Rome Where You Want To. Week 14: Ovid, Virgil, and More Roman Poets
People are People, Faithful and Infidel. Week 13: The Koran and Rumi's Poems
Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Week 12: Lives of the Caesars
Let It Be. Episode 11: The Stoicism of Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus
I Can See Clearly Now. Week 10: The Bible
It's the End of the World as We Know It. Week 9: Aeschylus, Eurpides, and Sophocles
How to Weigh a Heart. Week 8: The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Monster Inside of You. Week 7: The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Dhammapada
Are You a Lover or a Fighter? Week 6: Plato and Herodotus
To Be a Friend, Read Aristotle. Week 5: Nicomachaen Ethics and Poetics.
True Faith. Week 4: Confucius and The Analects
Talk Talk...with Jack! Week 3: Homer's Odyssey
Don't Stop Believin'. Week 2: Getting Started with The Odyssey
Don't Fear the Reaper. Week 1: Plato's Republic and The Last Days of Socrates
Crack The Book Trailer
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60 Days At Sea - The Realities of Yacht Deliveries
3 Life-Changing Lessons (+ YOUR Questions Answered!)
Abide Finally Returns Home
A Day In The Life Of A Yacht Crew
How The Journey Came to a Halt in Newport
Abide’s Icy Escape From The Shipyard
Transforming A Boat Into A Home with a Yacht Interior Designer
Back On The Water: Dark Days and Delays
The Secrets of Cooking on a Private Yacht with Vanessa Verster
Behind The Refit: Life’s Challenges
Decking The Hull: Refitting Abide Over a Cold Maine Winter
Building a Shipyard From The Ground Up with JB Turner
How We Made Abide Beautiful Again
How To Buy A Boat (And Why You Need A Broker)
What Went On In The Shed…
Uncovering The Turbulent History of Abide
A Frosty Reception - Our Intrepid Captain’s Story: Part 2
Our Intrepid Captain’s Story: Part 1
Setting Sail Into The Unknown