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Hardcore Literature — 91 episodes
Ep 91 - The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
Ep 90 - How to Live the Great Books: Life-Changing Reading Habits
Ep 89 - Book Club Schedule for 2026
Ep 88 - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Ep 87 - Appreciating Shakespeare on My Birthday
Ep 86 - Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
Ep 85 - The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)
Ep 84 - Book Club Schedule for 2025
Ep 83 - Reflecting on Reading the Great Books in 2024
Ep 82 - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
Ep 81 - The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Ep 80 - How to Read Poetry for Personal Growth
Ep 79 - The Tragedy of Othello (Shakespeare)
Ep 78 - The Essays of Montaigne
Ep 77 - Tartuffe (Molière)
Ep 76 - Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)
Ep 75 - King Lear (Shakespeare)
Ep 74 - Faust (Goethe)
Ep 73 - The Prince (Machiavelli)
Ep 72 - The Tragedy of Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Ep 71 - Book Club Schedule for 2024
Ep 70 - Gothic Literature and the Rise of the Vampire
Ep 69 - The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
Ep 68 - How to Start Writing Literature (Lessons from Great Writers)
Ep 67 - How to Create a Powerful Daily Reading Practice
Ep 66 - The Bookish Q&A Show (Coffee with Hardcore Literature)
Ep 65 - How to Possess Poetry by Memory
Ep 64 - How to Approach a Special Author Project
Ep 63 - Reflecting on Life, Literature & Reading the Great Books
Ep 62 - Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
Ep 61 - How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Tolstoy)
Ep 60 - The Tragedy of Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Ep 59 - The Book of Job (Reading the Bible as Great Literature)
Ep 58 - How to Make 2023 Your Greatest Reading Year (and Lessons from the Great Books)
Ep 57 - The Best Beginnings in Great Literature
Ep 56 - How to Read in Times of Need
Ep 55 - Shakespeare's Comedies
Ep 54 - The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
Ep 53 - The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
Ep 52 - Reflecting on the Great Books on my Birthday
Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)
Ep 50 - Reading Goals for 2022
Ep 49 - A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
Ep 48 - Book Club Schedule for 2022
Ep 48 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Ep 47 - How the Great Books Saved My Life
Ep 46 - How to Write a Book Review
Ep 45 - How to Overcome the Challenges Facing Readers Today
Ep 44 - Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Ep 43 - Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Ep 42 - Siddharta (Hermann Hesse)
Ep 41 - Our Favourite Comfort Reads
Ep 40 - Shakespeare's Tragedies
Ep 39 - Literature I'm Loving Right Now
Ep 38 - The Bhagavad Gita
Ep 37 - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Ep 36 - How to Read World Literature in Translation
Ep 35 - Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Ep 34 - The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Ep 33 - Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
Ep 32 - Lessons Learned from Running a Book Club
Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)
Ep 30 - Answering Your Bookish Questions - The Q&A Show
Ep 29 - How to Live the Great Books (Approaches to Literature)
Ep 28 - The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)
Ep 27 - Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Ep 26 - Man and His Symbols (Carl Jung)
Ep 25 - The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ep 24 - How to Heal Your Trauma with Literature (A Guide to Bibliotherapy)
Ep 23 - How to Read Imaginative Literature (Lessons from Lockdown)
Ep 22 - Join the Hardcore Literature Book Club
Ep 21 - What Is Art? (Tolstoy)
Ep 20 - Shakespeare's Sonnets
Ep 19 - Reading and Life Goals for 2021
Ep 18 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Ep 17 - The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
Ep 16 - Richard III (Shakespeare)
Ep 15 - The Q&A Show: Answering Your Questions About Books, Reading & Literature
Ep 14 - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
Ep 12 - How to Talk to Your Shadow: Practical Tips from Jungian Psychology
Ep 11 - Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Ep 10 - Aristotle's Virtues: Ambition and Good Temper
Ep 9 - How to Read and Appreciate Short Stories
Ep 8 - How to Read the Complete Works of Shakespeare in a Year
Ep 7 - Aristotle's Virtues: Magnificence and Pride
Ep 6 - Aristotle's Virtues: Courage, Temperance, Generosity
Ep 5 - The Poetry of Rumi
Ep 4 - The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Ep 3 - Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Ep 2 - Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
Ep 1 - The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)