A Case For Classics

It's the end of the Russian Literature Miniseries and I end it on a man and not a work. Wires got crossed, but we still talk about an interesting man, Vladimir Nabokov.

We break from the norm this week as we talk about a Russian writer with humble beginnings and a new perspective, Anton Chekhov.

It's the battle of the generations with Ivan Turgenev's work Fathers and Sons!

I tackle a book bigger than my first car, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and share my absolute joy in discovering that it is honestly an amazing book.

This week, I'm talking Dostoevsky, a writer I respect but am not necessarily a fan of. Don't worry, I was gentle. This is not a hate show.

We're doing another mini-series! This time, on Russian novelists! As we should, we start at the beginning with the author of the first Russian Novel, Nikolai Gogol and his book Dead Souls.

We revisit Jane Austen with her final work, Persuasion. Seriously, her father is awful.

This is the third and final episode in our Arthurian mini-series! I talk Camelot, the Round Table, and the knights who sat there.

Part two of our Arthurian miniseries, this week I talk about Le Morte d'Arthur and the complicated i.e. messy man who wrote it, Sir Thomas Malory.

This is part one of the mini-series on Arthurian Legend! Today it's the history of the lore and my thoughts on chivalric romances.