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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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📔Contents Page: cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🎖️ War and Peace: cutt.ly/U3nzGma
🎭 Shakespeare Project: cutt.ly/B3nxHH7
🐳 Moby Dick: cutt.ly/K3nzVKf
☄️ Blood Meridian: cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp
🍂 Wuthering Heights: cutt.ly/N3nxxYt
🇮🇪 Ulysses: cutt.ly/x3nxQmN
🚂 Anna Karenina: cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
🌸 Siddharta: cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
🇫🇷 Les Misérables: cutt.ly/J3YixoA
🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: cutt.ly/nToAQQ3
🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: cutt.ly/9ToAybt
📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: tinyurl.com/45rv965c
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0:00 thank you
0:40 paperbacks vs hardbacks
4:29 long novels vs short stories
7:21 reading the Bible as literature
12:22 how to get out of a reading slump
16:53 bookshelf and bookstore tours
18:23 do you like Cormac McCarthy?
19:30 advice for your 18-year-old self
23:23 personal statements for university
24:00 personal top 10 favourite books
27:43 how to remember non-fiction
29:38 books on literary theory
30:35 political messages in novels
36:15 the most influential writers
38:42 romantic poetry
39:00 how to approach long classic poems
40:35 a lovely comment
40:50 reading world literature in the original language
42:20 how to get into Shakespeare
45:47 what is special about literature for you?
48:00 where to start with philosophy?
49:20 how to select the right books for you
50:50 rapid-fire question-and-answer
57:00 thank you again

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