Dead Authors Through History

Prepare for what might be Marlon & Jake’s most controversial hot takes yet, as they travel back through the last four hundred years to decide which dead authors from each century stand the test of time and which can be left to gather dust on the shelf.  Where do they fall on Paradise Lost?  Who triumphs in the battle of the poets v. novelists of the 18th century? How much has the 1930s Hollywood studio system shaped classic stories?  Which of them stans Huckleberry Finn, and who thinks it might be overrated?  Marlon & Jake answer these questions and more as they discuss the timeless work of the freaky, the rebellious and the groundbreaking. From Mary Shelley to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Paul Laurence Dunbar to Daphne du Maurier—with a healthy dose of Alexander Pope-dissing—tune in to find out where you stand with their picks. 

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki ShikibuThe Adventures of Amir Hamza by Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah BilgramiParadise Lost by John MiltonThe Faerie Queene by Edmund SpenserThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Provoked Wife by John VanbrughFrankenstein by Mary ShelleyMathilda by Mary ShelleyThe Last Man by Mary ShelleyThe Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann RadcliffeNorthanger Abbey by Jane AustenThe Complete Poems of William BlakeRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeMoll Flanders by Daniel DefoePamela by Samuel RichardsonBleak House by Charles DickensNana by Émile ZolaGerminal by Émile ZolaAdventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainThe Complete Poems of Paul Laurence DunbarI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Awakening by Kate Chopin“The Story of an Hour” by Kate ChopinA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleForest of A Thousand Daemons by D.O. FagunwaCane by Jean ToomerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBarracoon by Zora Neale HurstonOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García MárquezThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeArrow of God by Chinua AchebeNo Longer at Ease by Chinua AchebeThe Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyRebecca by Daphne du MaurierA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. TolkienGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell