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Welcome to the Norton Library Podcast, where we explore influential works of literature and philosophy with the leading scholars and teachers behind Norton’s newest series of classics. In each episode, with a Norton Library editor or translator as our guide, we'll learn something new and surprising about these classic works—why they endure, and what it means to read them today. Hosted by Mark Cirino and produced by Michael Von Cannon, the co-creators of the Hemingway Society's popular show One True Podcast.
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The Quintessential Russian Novel (Crime and Punishment, Part 1)
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Why We Read Controversial Texts (Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part 2)
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May 18, 2026 |
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Tears with a Purpose (Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part 1)
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May 04, 2026 |
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Life is Made of Ever So Many Partings Welded Together (Great Expectations, Part 2)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Trying to Be Funny Again (Great Expectations, Part 1)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Pulling Back the Curtain (A Room of One's Own, Part 2)
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Shakespeare's Sister and a Spider's Web of Fiction (A Room of One's Own, Part 1)
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Subtle, Remorseful—Self-Loathing?—Hypocrites (The Scarlet Letter, Part 2)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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The Perfect Time to Read The Scarlet Letter (The Scarlet Letter, Part 1)
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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How is the World Reading You? (The Tale of Genji, Part 2)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Beauty, Loneliness, and Scandal (The Tale of Genji, Part 1)
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Happy Birthday, Jane! (Jane Austen at 250)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Listen to This—Then Play Happy Music! (Utilitarianism, Part 2)
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Better Socrates Dissatisfied than a Fool Satisfied? (Utilitarianism, Part 1)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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The Importance of Fun (The Decameron, Part 2)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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The Stealth Classic (The Decameron, Part 1)
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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I Write Only That Whereof I Know (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Part 2)
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Less Like You're Reading Her, More Like You're Listening to Her (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Part 1)
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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It's Never Too Late to Discover Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms, Part 2)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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A Tale of Love and a Tale of War (A Farewell to Arms, Part 1)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Hector and Achilles are More Alike Than You Think (The Iliad, Part 2)
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Achilles's Job is Beach (The Iliad, Part 1)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Jo's Elastic Heart (Little Women, Part 2)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Life Planning 101 with Louisa May Alcott (Little Women, Part 1)
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May 19, 2025 |
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Tell Your Students about Edith Wharton! (The Age of Innocence, Part 2)
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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A Hieroglyphic World: Social Rules in Wharton's Novel of Manners (The Age of Innocence, Part 1)
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero" and Hemingway's Flawed Characters (The Sun Also Rises, Part 2)
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Don't Try This At Home: Hemingway's First Major Novel (The Sun Also Rises, Part 1)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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The World Was All Before Them (Paradise Lost, Part 2)
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Milton Retweets His Way to Revolution (Well, He Tries) (Paradise Lost, Part 1)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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A Man Half Bull and a Bull Half Man (Metamorphoses, Part 2)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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The Secret Poet (Metamorphoses, Part 1)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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The Hog-Squeal of the Universe (The Jungle, Part 2)
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Meatpacking and Muckraking (The Jungle, Part 1)
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Nasty, Brutish, and Short (Leviathan, Part 2)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Artificial Kings (Leviathan, Part 1)
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Imps and Snatchers and Spirits, Oh My! (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Part 2)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Who's the Real You? (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Part 1)
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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A Passion for Dead Leaves (Sense and Sensibility, Part 2)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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The Last Eighteenth-Century Novel (Sense and Sensibility, Part 1)
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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They All Cried Out, "He Made Us" (Confessions, Part 2)
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Augustine Gives in to Pear Pressure (Confessions, Part 1)
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Funny as Hell (Inferno, Part 2)
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Dante's Inferno: A 13th-Century Scared Straight! (Inferno, Part 1)
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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How to Read, How to Feel (Narrative of Frederick Douglass, Part 2)
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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The Hero's Journey (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Part 1)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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But I Wouldn't Give Myself (The Awakening, Part 2)
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May 27, 2024 |
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Don't Nap for Self-Care. Wake up! (The Awakening, Part 1)
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May 13, 2024 |
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It's Okay to be Frustrated with Joyce (Dubliners, Part 2)
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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You Can File this All Under "A City in Decline" (Dubliners, Part 1)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Medea has Pierced Our Hearts (Medea, Part 2)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Euripides's Exploration of the Unthinkable and Unnatural (Medea, Part 1)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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An African American Novel about White People (The Marrow of Tradition, Part 2)
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Carterets, Millers, and Massacres (The Marrow of Tradition, Part 1)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Up-to-date with a Vengeance (Dracula, Part 2)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Vampires and Gothic Horror (Dracula, Part 1)
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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A Long and Winding Road to Nowhere (The Canterbury Tales, Part 2)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Tales and Tellers (The Canterbury Tales, Part 1)
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Ugh, as if I could forgive her! (Emma, Part 2)
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Handsome, Clever, and Rich (Emma, Part 1)
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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A Nose for Absurdity (Selected Tales of Gogol, Part 2)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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The Strange, Wonderful Worlds of Nikolai Gogol (Selected Tales, Part 1)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Call Me Ishmael, But Don't Call Moby-Dick "Boring" (Moby-Dick, Part 2)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The Ultimate Semester at Sea (Moby-Dick, Part 1)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Jane Eyre Has Emotional Motion Sickness (Jane Eyre, Part 2)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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The Madwoman in the Mirror (Jane Eyre, Part 1)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Blind Eyes and Open Ears (Oedipus Tyrannos, Part 2)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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The Twist Is in the Title (Oedipus Tyrannos, Part 1)
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Du Bois and the Ongoing Project of Black Identity (The Souls of Black Folk, Part 2)
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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The Unorthodox Collection of Essays that Became a Masterpiece (The Souls of Black Folk, Part 1)
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May 22, 2023 |
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What the Movies Get Wrong about Frankenstein (Frankenstein, Part 2)
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May 08, 2023 |
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The Teenager Who Won a Legendary Ghost-Story Competition (Frankenstein, Part 1)
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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This Is Not a Love Story (The Great Gatsby, Part 2)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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How Fitzgerald’s Least Popular Novel Became an American Icon (The Great Gatsby, Part 1)
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Mar 14, 2023 |