The History of Literature

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611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway…

5/30/2024 • 66 min

Scottish writer John Buchan is perhaps best known for his pioneering thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps, the source material for one of Alfred Hitchcock's first great films. But as his biographer (and granddaughter) Ursula Buchan tells Jacke, Buchan was far from a one-hit wonder. John Buchan wrote more than a hundred books of fiction and non-fiction and a thousand n… Play episode

610 How to Become Famous (with Cass Sunstein) | My Last Book with James Ma…
609 Swimming in Paris (with Colombe Schneck) | My Last Book with Pardis Da…
608 The Encyclopedia of the Dog (with Jose Vergara) | My Last Book with Ga…
607 Upton Sinclair and the Muckraking Novelist (with Adelle Waldman) | My …
606 Love, Loss, and Literature (with Sophie Ratcliffe)
605 Tove Jansson, Creator of the Moomins (with Boel Westin)
604 How Russian Literature Became Great (with Rolf Hellebust) | My Last Bo…
603 Rethinking Ralph Waldo Emerson (with James Marcus)
602 Thomas Hardy's "Spellbound Palace," The Birthplace of the King James B…
601 Thomas Hardy (with Margot Livesey)
600 Doctor Johnson! (with Phil Jones) | A Very Special My Last Book (with …
599 Alejandro Jodorowsky, Filmmaker and Philosopher (with William Egginton…
598 Forgotten Women of Literature 8 - Charmian Kittredge London (with Iris…
597 Karl Ove Knausgaard (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Nicholas …
596 The Power of Stories (with J Edward Chamberlin) | Taylor Swift and Emi…
595 Machiavelli (with Gabriele Pedulla) | My Last Book with Sarah Ruden
594 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
593 Vladimir Propp (with Mike Palindrome) | The Russian Gothic (with Valer…
592 Virgil (with Sarah Ruden) | Darwin and Gaskell | My Last Book with Tom…
591 William Wordsworth
590 Blotted Lines (with Adhaar Noor Desai) | My Last Book with Lara Vetter
589 Dante and Friendship (with Elizabeth Coggeshall) | My Last Book with D…
588 China in African Literature (with Duncan Yoon) | My Last Book with Kat…
587 Byron's Letters (with Andrew Stauffer) | My Last Book with Jonathan va…
586 The Czech Manuscripts Hoax (with David Cooper) | My Last Book with Jes…
585 Plots and the Modern Novelist (with Pardis Dabashi) | My Last Book wit…
584 A Conversation with James MacManus | My Last Book with Peter K Anderss…
583 Margaret Cavendish (with Francesca Peacock) | My Last Book with Patric…
582 Tickets, Please by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book…
581 The Venerable Bede (with Michelle P. Brown) | My Last Book with Adrian…
580 Thoreau at Work (with Jonathan van Belle) | My Last Book with Andrew P…
579 New Year New You! Conversations with Bethanne Patrick and Aislyn Greene
578 Chapters (with Nicholas Dames) | My Last Book (with Hamid Dabashi)
Life and Art from FT Weekend: Books Books Books!
577 'Twas the Night Before Controversy - The Raging Dispute Over a Classic…
576 Love and Art in a Time of Hate - How European Artists and Intellectual…
575 A History of the Fool (with Peter Andersson) | My Last Book with Ed Si…
574 The Book at War (with Andrew Pettegree) | My Last Book with Robin Lane…
573 A Conversation with Anne Enright, Winner of the Man Booker Prize | My …
572 Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence (with Mike Palindrome)
571 Shakespeare's White Others (with David Sterling Brown) | My Last Book …
570 Pirates! (with Katharine Howe)
569 The Man with a Passion for Medieval Manuscripts (with Christopher de H…
568 The Tempest (with Laurie Frankel)
567 Your Dream Guest: Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature | …
566 Shakespeare's First Folio - The Facsimile Edition (with Adrian Edwards)
565 The Roman Empire's Golden Age (with Tom Holland) | My Last Book with H…
564 H.D. (with Lara Vetter)
563 Sylvia Plath (with Carl Rollyson)

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