English Class Hooligans
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEach month we read a classic book that you were likely assigned to read in school, but never did.
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008 - Frankenstein
January 31, 2019 08:05 - 39 minutes - 45.3 MBFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in 1823.
007 - Cats Cradle
September 30, 2018 07:05 - 56 minutes - 64.7 MBCat's Cradle is a science fiction novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1963. His fourth novel, it explores issues of science, technology, and religion, satirizing the arms race and many other targets along the way.
006 - Macbeth
August 30, 2018 22:57 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBMacbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare ; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.
005 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
June 19, 2018 00:26 - 57 minutes - 65.5 MBA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knig...
004 - A Streetcar Named Desire
May 01, 2018 04:57 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBA Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams that received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. This month we also have a special guest on the show. Thanks again Ellen for joining us.
003 - A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
March 31, 2018 07:05 - 49 minutes - 56.9 MBA Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks amongst the most famous works in the history of literary fiction. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revo...
002 - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
February 28, 2018 08:05 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBThe Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
001 - Anthem - Ayn Rand
January 27, 2018 09:51 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBAnthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom. The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age. Technological advancement is now carefully planned and the concept of individuality has been eliminated.