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The Great Books

51 episodes

Hillsdale College’s John J. Miller discusses classic works within the Western literary canon.

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Episode 304: 'The Hearing Trumpet' by Leonora Carrington

Published: Dec. 12, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 6 seconds

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Episode 303: 'On Duties' by Cicero

Published: Dec. 5, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 8 seconds

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Episode 302: 'Mythology' by Edith Hamilton

Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 301: The Poetry of Anne Bradstreet

Published: Nov. 21, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 300: 'God and Man at Yale' by William F. Buckley Jr.

Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 299: 'The Teachings of Ptahhotep'

Published: Nov. 7, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 298: 'The Haunting of Hill House' by Shirley Jackson

Published: Oct. 31, 2023, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 297: 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym' by Edgar Allan Poe

Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 296: 'Villette' by Charlotte Bronte

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 295: 'Daniel Deronda' by George Eliot

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 294: 'The Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith

Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 171: ‘The Education of Cyrus’ by Xenophon

Published: March 16, 2021, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 36 seconds

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Episode 170: ‘Eugenie Grandet’ by Honore de Balzac

Published: March 9, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 169: ‘Ravelstein’ by Saul Bellow

Published: March 2, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 168: ‘Revelations of Divine Love’ by Julian of Norwich

Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 53 seconds

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Episode 167: ‘The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge’ by Calvin Coolidge

Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 53 seconds

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Episode 166: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 46 seconds

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Episode 165: ‘Up from Slavery’ by Booker T. Washington

Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 37 seconds

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Episode 164: ‘Richard II’ by William Shakespeare

Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 52 seconds

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Episode 163: ‘The Return of the King’ by J. R. R. Tolkien

Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 162: ‘The Two Towers’ by J. R. R. Tolkien

Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 161: ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ by J. R. R. Tolkien [Rereleased Version]

Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 160: ‘The Principia’ by Isaac Newton

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 159: ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens

Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 158: ‘Omeros’ by Derek Walcott

Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 50 seconds

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Episode 157: ‘O Pioneers!’ by Willa Cather

Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 14 seconds

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Episode 156: ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ by Bertolt Brecht

Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 155: ‘The Sound and the Fury’ by William Faulkner

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 154: ‘Notes on Government’ by James Madison

Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 55 seconds

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Episode 153: ‘Works and Days’ by Hesiod

Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 35 seconds

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Episode 152: ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ by Ray Bradbury

Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes

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Episode 151: Jefferson’s Bible

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 150: ‘Emma’ by Jane Austen

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 149: ‘The Memorandum’ by Vaclav Havel

Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 28 seconds

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Episode 148: ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ by Ernest Hemingway

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 147: ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 144: ‘Billy Budd’ by Herman Melville

Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 19 seconds

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Episode 143: ‘Self-Reliance’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 30 seconds

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Episode 142: ‘David Copperfield’ by Charles Dickens

Published: July 28, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 3 seconds

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Episode 141: ‘The Song of Hiawatha’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Published: July 21, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 33 seconds

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Episode 140: The Journalism of Ida B. Wells

Published: July 14, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds

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Episode 139: ‘The Life of Samuel Johnson’ by James Boswell

Published: July 7, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 138: ‘The Persians’ by Aeschylus

Published: June 30, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 137: ‘Anne of Green Gables’ by Lucy Maude Montgomery

Published: June 23, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 136: ‘The Decameron’ by Giovanni Boccaccio

Published: June 16, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 17 seconds

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Episode 135: ‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce

Published: June 9, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 134: ‘Notes from Underground’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Published: June 2, 2020, 9:45 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 133: ‘The Rough Riders’ by Theodore Roosevelt

Published: May 26, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 24 seconds

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Episode 128: ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding

Published: April 21, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 40 seconds

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Episode 127: ‘Gaudy Night’ by Dorothy L. Sayers

Published: April 14, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 8 seconds

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Episode 126: ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ by Betty Smith

Published: April 7, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 12 seconds

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Episode 125: ‘Giants in the Earth’ by O. E. Rolvaag

Published: March 31, 2020, 2:54 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 124: ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ by William Shakespeare

Published: March 24, 2020, 3:27 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 31 seconds

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Episode 123: ‘Heart of Darkness’ by Joseph Conrad

Published: March 17, 2020, 12:42 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 122: ‘The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila’

Published: March 10, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 121: ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’ by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Published: March 3, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 56 seconds

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Episode 120: ‘Housekeeping’ by Marilynne Robinson

Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 119: ‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey’ by Thornton Wilder

Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds

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Episode 118: ‘The Scarlet Letter’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 1 second

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Episode 117: ‘The Abolition of Man’ by C. S. Lewis

Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 16 seconds

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Episode 116: ‘Natural History’ by Pliny the Elder

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 51 seconds

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Episode 115: ‘Tom Jones’ by Henry Fielding

Published: Jan. 21, 2020, 4:34 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 37 seconds

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