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.
    
     
• 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.
    
     
• 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.
    
     
• 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.
    
     
• Ep 125 - Book Hunting in The Renaissance: Poggio Bracciolini
  • 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.
    
     
• 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.
    
     
• Ep 153 - Silly Rhymes, Serious Messages: Dr. Seuss
  • 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.
    
     
• 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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