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Books Boys - Episode 8
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The Books Boys are back with more book talk on episode 8!
This month we chat about some classic literature, we juxtapose the romantic with the realistic, and then unexpectedly the amazing author Denis Shaughnessy (theawfulauthor.com) calls in to chat about his ground-breaking writing style
Books discussed include:
- Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, 1811)
- Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen, 1817)
- Old Goriot (Honoré de Balzac, 1835)
- The Awful Truth about the Sushing Prize (Denis Shaughnessy, 2019)
- Sketches by Boz (Charles Dickens, 1836)
- Doña Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós, 1876)
- The Works of Christopher Marlowe (1500s)
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