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The Norton Library Podcast — 72 episodes
Tears with a Purpose (Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part 1)
Life is Made of Ever So Many Partings Welded Together (Great Expectations, Part 2)
Trying to Be Funny Again (Great Expectations, Part 1)
Pulling Back the Curtain (A Room of One's Own, Part 2)
Shakespeare's Sister and a Spider's Web of Fiction (A Room of One's Own, Part 1)
Subtle, Remorseful—Self-Loathing?—Hypocrites (The Scarlet Letter, Part 2)
The Perfect Time to Read The Scarlet Letter (The Scarlet Letter, Part 1)
How is the World Reading You? (The Tale of Genji, Part 2)
Beauty, Loneliness, and Scandal (The Tale of Genji, Part 1)
Happy Birthday, Jane! (Jane Austen at 250)
Listen to This—Then Play Happy Music! (Utilitarianism, Part 2)
Better Socrates Dissatisfied than a Fool Satisfied? (Utilitarianism, Part 1)
The Importance of Fun (The Decameron, Part 2)
The Stealth Classic (The Decameron, Part 1)
I Write Only That Whereof I Know (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Part 2)
Less Like You're Reading Her, More Like You're Listening to Her (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Part 1)
It's Never Too Late to Discover Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms, Part 2)
A Tale of Love and a Tale of War (A Farewell to Arms, Part 1)
Hector and Achilles are More Alike Than You Think (The Iliad, Part 2)
Achilles's Job is Beach (The Iliad, Part 1)
Jo's Elastic Heart (Little Women, Part 2)
Life Planning 101 with Louisa May Alcott (Little Women, Part 1)
Tell Your Students about Edith Wharton! (The Age of Innocence, Part 2)
A Hieroglyphic World: Social Rules in Wharton's Novel of Manners (The Age of Innocence, Part 1)
Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero" and Hemingway's Flawed Characters (The Sun Also Rises, Part 2)
Don't Try This At Home: Hemingway's First Major Novel (The Sun Also Rises, Part 1)
The World Was All Before Them (Paradise Lost, Part 2)
Milton Retweets His Way to Revolution (Well, He Tries) (Paradise Lost, Part 1)
A Man Half Bull and a Bull Half Man (Metamorphoses, Part 2)
The Secret Poet (Metamorphoses, Part 1)
The Hog-Squeal of the Universe (The Jungle, Part 2)
Meatpacking and Muckraking (The Jungle, Part 1)
Nasty, Brutish, and Short (Leviathan, Part 2)
Artificial Kings (Leviathan, Part 1)
Imps and Snatchers and Spirits, Oh My! (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Part 2)
Who's the Real You? (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Part 1)
A Passion for Dead Leaves (Sense and Sensibility, Part 2)
The Last Eighteenth-Century Novel (Sense and Sensibility, Part 1)
They All Cried Out, "He Made Us" (Confessions, Part 2)
Augustine Gives in to Pear Pressure (Confessions, Part 1)
Funny as Hell (Inferno, Part 2)
Dante's Inferno: A 13th-Century Scared Straight! (Inferno, Part 1)
How to Read, How to Feel (Narrative of Frederick Douglass, Part 2)
The Hero's Journey (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Part 1)
But I Wouldn't Give Myself (The Awakening, Part 2)
Don't Nap for Self-Care. Wake up! (The Awakening, Part 1)
It's Okay to be Frustrated with Joyce (Dubliners, Part 2)
You Can File this All Under "A City in Decline" (Dubliners, Part 1)
Medea has Pierced Our Hearts (Medea, Part 2)
Euripides's Exploration of the Unthinkable and Unnatural (Medea, Part 1)
An African American Novel about White People (The Marrow of Tradition, Part 2)
Carterets, Millers, and Massacres (The Marrow of Tradition, Part 1)
Up-to-date with a Vengeance (Dracula, Part 2)
Vampires and Gothic Horror (Dracula, Part 1)
A Long and Winding Road to Nowhere (The Canterbury Tales, Part 2)
Tales and Tellers (The Canterbury Tales, Part 1)
Ugh, as if I could forgive her! (Emma, Part 2)
Handsome, Clever, and Rich (Emma, Part 1)
A Nose for Absurdity (Selected Tales of Gogol, Part 2)
The Strange, Wonderful Worlds of Nikolai Gogol (Selected Tales, Part 1)
Call Me Ishmael, But Don't Call Moby-Dick "Boring" (Moby-Dick, Part 2)
The Ultimate Semester at Sea (Moby-Dick, Part 1)
Jane Eyre Has Emotional Motion Sickness (Jane Eyre, Part 2)
The Madwoman in the Mirror (Jane Eyre, Part 1)
Blind Eyes and Open Ears (Oedipus Tyrannos, Part 2)
The Twist Is in the Title (Oedipus Tyrannos, Part 1)
Du Bois and the Ongoing Project of Black Identity (The Souls of Black Folk, Part 2)
The Unorthodox Collection of Essays that Became a Masterpiece (The Souls of Black Folk, Part 1)
What the Movies Get Wrong about Frankenstein (Frankenstein, Part 2)
The Teenager Who Won a Legendary Ghost-Story Competition (Frankenstein, Part 1)
This Is Not a Love Story (The Great Gatsby, Part 2)
How Fitzgerald’s Least Popular Novel Became an American Icon (The Great Gatsby, Part 1)