263: The Ballad of the White Horse and Some Dudes Who Sing

2024-07-30

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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We revisit a book we've done an episode on already. But here's the thing, folks: the book is so dang good, and Graeme walks us through the intricacies of a specific scene in this one. And it's good. Soooooo good. In my humble opinion.

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263: The Ballad of the White Horse and Some Dudes Who Sing

Classical Stuff You Should Know

Fler avsnitt från "Classical Stuff You Should Know"

286: Prince Darling

285: The Democratic Man: Plato's Republic Revisited

284: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"

283: Beauty and the Beast

282: Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

281: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

280: Raskolnikov and Narcissism

279: Aesop's Fables

278: Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations"

277: "Emma," by Jane Austen