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By Megaphonic FM
Here are the books that The Spouter-Inn, your favourite podcast about "great books", will be tackling in 2023! Every January we ring in the new year by looking at a book that offers us a new perspective, and every December we look at a book by an author who passed that year. But in between we'll be doing a wander through the entire history of literature, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to today. Join us!
Blind Owl
Sadeq Hedayat,
Sassan Tabatabai,
Sassan Tabatabai
Paperback
$14.00
$13.02
January: Our "New year, new perspective" episode looks at this Iranian modernist novel. Our first horror novel? Well, almost...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Andrew George,
Andrew George
Paperback
$17.00
$15.81
February: We begin with a very old piece of literature indeed.
Antigone
Sophocles,
Anne Carson
Paperback
$14.95
March: An ancient Greek play (in a very modern translation by Anne Carson).
The JPS Bible Commentary: Song of Songs
Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies and Chair of the Committee on Jewish Studies Michael Fishbane PhD
Hardback
$69.00
April: The Song of Songs is the erotic poem in the Bible.
The Consolation of Philosophy
P G Walsh
Paperback
$14.95
$13.90
May: Boethius's poetic and meditative book about a visit from Philosophy herself, written while he was in prison.
Etymologiarvm Sive Originvm Libri Xx, Volumes 1-2...
Paperback
$36.95
June: The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville is a curious medieval encyclopedia. There is an English translation (by Stephen Barney et al.), but it's not on Bookshop for some reason.
Layli and Majnun
Nezami Ganjavi,
Dick Davis,
Dick Davis,
Paperback
$18.00
$16.74
July: The classic medieval Persian love story.
Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Harriet Spiegel,
James Dean
Paperback
$36.74
August: A later medieval love story, this one told by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Complete Essays of Montaigne
Michel Eyquem Montaigne,
Donald M Frame
Paperback
$45.00
September: Essays by the guy who popularized the essay.
Elective Affinities
Fellow and Praelector in German David Constantine,
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Paperback
$13.95
$12.97
October: A curious novel by the nineteenth-century poet and philosopher.
We haven't settled on November (which will be a 20th century novel) or December (which will be an episode in memoriam) yet. Stay tuned and find out what we choose!