In Episode 3, we hate on Dickens, fall in love (again) with Shakespeare and get angry about blies. If you don't know what a blie is, you're not alone. Listen and find out. 

 

Reading

Alicia Erian

Towelhead

Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre

NPR Morning Edition “If Literature’s Great Characters Could Text, They’d Charm Your Pantalets Off”

Thomas HardyTess of the D’Urbervilles

Charles DickensPenguin Author Page Great ExpectationsOliver Twist cartoon from 1972

George EliotMiddlemarchJane Austen Official (?) Website

Ellen Fein and Sherrie SchneiderThe Rules

William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet