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📖 Read the Great Books with the Hardcore Literature Book Club: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature/about
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🎙️ open.spotify.com/show/70IZA248yNVkrjqzDNm6Lt (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify)
🏫 hardcore-university.teachable.com (Hardcore University, Exam Preparation Courses)
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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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📔Contents Page: cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🚂 Anna Karenina: cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
🌸 Siddharta: cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: cutt.ly/nToAQQ3
🖋️ Great Expectations: cutt.ly/9ToAybt
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0:00 literature as gateway to art and music
1:30 gardening and great literature
2:00 flowers named after characters
2:50 Coleridge's Ancient Mariner
3:50 the novels of Thomas Hardy
4:30 Thomas Hardy & George Eliot
6:30 how I fell in love with Tess
8:15 reading and the natural world
9:20 Cormac McCarthy on the unconscious
10:00 slow reading vs binge-reading
11:00 the habit of walking in nature
11:50 hiking in the English countryside
12:20 Cormac McCarthy's fanbase
13:30 'True History of the Kelly Gang'
14:00 McCrum's top 100 novels
16:10 secondhand bookstore haul
17:30 Penguin Modern Classics haul
18:00 reading a play a month
19:45 the sublime Moby Dick
20:11 the gothic and horror literature
20:31 Samuel Richardson's Clarissa
22:41 James Joyce's Ulysses
24:00 Marcel Proust & James Joyce
25:11 George Eliot's Middlemarch
26:21 what are you reading right now?