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Episodes:
- Ep 7 - Part 1: Dorian Gray-t Expectations - Oscar Wilde's wild ride
- Oscar Wilde’s wit, scandal, and downfall - the wild ride of one of literature’s sharpest voices.
- Oscar Wilde’s wit, scandal, and downfall - the wild ride of one of literature’s sharpest voices.
- Ep 23 - Part 1: Our Lady of the Night - Mary Shelley
- Mary Shelley, teenage author of Frankenstein, inventor of science fiction, and survivor of endless tragedy.
- Mary Shelley, teenage author of Frankenstein, inventor of science fiction, and survivor of endless tragedy.
- Ep 79 - Germany's love affair w/ 1st Nation culture: The story of Karl May
- The strange case of Karl May - Germany’s most popular writer who inspired a national obsession with the American West.
- The strange case of Karl May - Germany’s most popular writer who inspired a national obsession with the American West.
- Ep 97 - A Famous British Woman is Missing!!!: It's Agatha Christie this time
- Agatha Christie disappears for eleven days, sparking a real-life mystery worthy of her novels.
- Agatha Christie disappears for eleven days, sparking a real-life mystery worthy of her novels.
- Ep 125 - Book Hunting in The Renaissance: Poggio Bracciolini
- Poggio Bracciolini, the humanist who scoured Europe’s monasteries to rescue lost classical texts.
- Poggio Bracciolini, the humanist who scoured Europe’s monasteries to rescue lost classical texts.
- Ep 149 - The Fairytale Man: Hans Christian Andersen
- Hans Christian Andersen, the oddball genius who gave us The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and more.
- Hans Christian Andersen, the oddball genius who gave us The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and more.
- Ep 152 - Grammar Nerds for the Ages: The Brothers Grimm
- The Brothers Grimm weren’t just about fairytale - they were obsessed with cataloging language itself.
- The Brothers Grimm weren’t just about fairytale - they were obsessed with cataloging language itself.
- Ep 153 - Silly Rhymes, Serious Messages: Dr. Seuss
- Dr. Seuss, beloved for his whimsical rhymes but deeply political at heart.
- Dr. Seuss, beloved for his whimsical rhymes but deeply political at heart.
- Ep 174: We're men, we're men in tights (Tight tights!) - Geoffrey Chaucer
- Geoffrey Chaucer, courtier and chronicler, and the bawdy brilliance of The Canterbury Tales.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, courtier and chronicler, and the bawdy brilliance of The Canterbury Tales.
- Ep 195: The men who wrote the Dictionary - Professor James Murray & Dr. W. C. Minor
- Professor James Murray and Dr. W. C. Minor are unlikely partners who built the Oxford English Dictionary.
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