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760 Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and Ebeneezer Scrooge

12/22/2025 • 73 min

In this holiday-themed episode, a sentimental Jacke takes a look at Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843), and the creation of Ebeneezer Scrooge. A version of this episode first aired in December 2020. That episode has not been available in our archives for several years. Join Jacke on a trip through literary England! Join Jacke and fellow literature fans… Play episode

759 The Godfather (with Karen Spence) | My Last Book with Elyse Graham
758 Jane Austen in 41 Objects (with Kathryn Sutherland) | 100 Years of Sol…
757 George Orwell's 1984 (#6 Greatest Book of All Time)
756 Newly Discovered Stories by Virginia Woolf (with Urmila Seshagiri) | M…
755 The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear (with Nan Z. Da) | My Last Book with …
754 Christopher Marlowe (with Stephen Greenblatt) | My Last Book with Eric…
753 Tenth-Anniversary Special (with Mike Palindrome and Laurie Frankel) | …
752 The Brontes' Sibling Rivalry (with Catherine Rayner) | My Last Book wi…
751 Covering Iran's Women-Led Uprising (with Nilo Tabrizy) | My Last Book …
750 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (with Mark Cirino) | Joyce Caro…
749 Willing and Will-Making in the English Renaissance (with Douglas Clark…
748 Katherine Mansfield (with Gerri Kimber) | The Poet and the Sex Worker …
747 Graphomaniac - The Story of a Horrible Russian Poet (with Ilya Vinitsk…
746 Wild Jane Austen (with Devoney Looser) | #9 Greatest Book of All Time
745 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (Halloween Fun-Size Edition)
744 Love, Sex, and Frankenstein (with Caroline Lea) | #10 Greatest Book of…
743 Fairy Tales (with Jack Zipes) [RECLAIMED] | Crime and Punishment by Fy…
742 Edgar Allan Poe (with Richard Kopley) | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Au…
741 Gabriela Mistral
740 Mel Brooks and Other Eminent Jews (with David Denby) | War and Peace b…
739 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (#14 GBOAT) | Johannes Gutenberg (with Eric…
738 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (#15 Greatest Book of All Time)
737 "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
736 Jane Austen's Favorite Brother, Henry (with Christopher Herbert) | A L…
735 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (with Mark Hussey) | My Last Book with …
734 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (#16 GBOAT) | 1925 - A Literar…
733 Haruki Murakami (with Mike Palindrome | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harpe…
732 The Bible (#18 GBOAT) | The Diaries of Samuel Pepys (with Kate Loveman…
731 The Brothers Karamazov Reclaimed (#19 Greatest Book of All Time)
730 "To Autumn" by John Keats | The Invention of Charlotte Brontë (with Gr…
729 Milton the Revolutionary (with Orlando Reade) | My Last Book with Jodi…
728 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (#20 GBOAT) | Lorrain…
727 Earthly Paradise in Old French Verse (with Jacob Abell) | My Last Book…
726 England vs France - A Literary Battle Royale (with Mike Palindrome) - …
725 The Trial by Franz Kafka (#21 GBOAT) | Edith Wharton and Patrick O'Bri…
724 The Stranger by Albert Camus (#22 Greatest Book of All Time) | Christo…
723 The Moral Rights of Authors (with Mira T Sundara Rajan) | My Last Book…
722 Kerouac's Road - A Conversation with Ebs Burnough, Director of a New K…
721 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (The #23 Greatest Book of All Time)
720 The 25 Greatest Books of All Time - #24 "The Odyssey" by Homer | The C…
719 "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F Scott Fitzgerald (with Mike Pali…
718 Jim - The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade (with Shel…
717 Einstein and Kafka (with Ken Krimstein) | Dr Johnson Helps a Friend (a…
716 Icelandic Folk Legends (with Dagrun Osk Jonsdottir) | John le Carre at…
715 How Did George Eliot and the Victorians Respond to Climate Collapse? (…
714 The Real Charles Dickens (with Stephen Browning and Simon Thomas) | Di…
713 The Odyssey (with Daniel Mendelsohn) | The History of Literature Podca…
712 Shakespeare's Greatest Love (with David Medina) | New Play About Shake…
711 How Does Literature Handle Atrocities? (with Bruce Robbins) | My Last …

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