Stay ConnectedOn the Road with Penguin Classics is a podcast that takes a stroll around the world’s favourite books. In each episode, author and editor Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of a remarkable reader.
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Shirley Jackson in Bennington, Vermont. For this spooky Halloween special, award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin joins Henry to haunt the eery corridors of the derelict Everett Mansion, the house that may well have inspired the greatest ghost story ever written, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133430/the-haunting-of-hill-house-by-jackson-shirley/9780141191447
Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of The Haunting of Hill House, read by Bernadette Dunne
https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/the-haunting-of-hill-house?sp=17673
Ruth Franklin
http://ruthfranklin.substack.com/
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
https://wwnorton.com/books/Shirley-Jackson-A-Rather-Haunted-Life/
Blackstone Publishing audiobook edition of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, read by Bernadette Dunne
https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/shirley-jackson?sp=67707
Edward H. Everett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hamlin_Everett
The Everett Mansion
https://svclookingglass.com/4321/entertainment/the-ghosts-of-everett-mansion/
Ghost Hunters Series 10 Episode 10
https://www.syfy.com/ghost-hunters/photos/darker-learning-season-10-episode-10
Southern Vermont Healthcare Realty
https://svhealthcare.org/news/svhc-introduces-real-estate-developer-for-former-college-campus
Alfred Weissman Real Estate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWaZDC4nyjo
Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/
Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/
Lucy Little: https://www.lucyalittle.com/
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On the Road with Penguin Classics is the literary podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author Henry Eliot travels to a different location to discuss a great work of literature with a different guest.
In series four, Henry's guests include Monica Ali, Katherine Rundell, Simon Callow, Marina Warner, Caryl Phillips, Anil Seth and Philip Pullman. They discuss the love stories of Jane Austen and James Baldwin, the fantasies of Charles Dickens and Angela Carter, the thrillers of Raymond Chandler and Anthony Burgess, the horrors of Mary Shelley and Shirley Jackson and the poetry of John Donne and William Blake.
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In this bonus episode, Henry introduces Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists, the perfect stocking-filler for book-lovers.
Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?
In this eclectic gallimaufry, Henry showcases some of his favourite literary lists: we witness the tragic ends of the Ancient Greek tragedians, learn the name of George Orwell's pet cockerel and rummage through Joan Didion's travelling bag; we consider the history of literary fart jokes, orbit the Shakespearean moons of Uranus and meet several pigs with wings. From the sublime to the ridiculous – and everything in between – Eliot's lists, recommendations and nuggets of trivia will delight, inspire and surprise anyone who loves reading.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/448329/eliots-book-of-bookish-lists-by-eliot-henry/9780241562727
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John Bunyan in Bedfordshire. The novelist Rachel Joyce joins Henry as they follow in the footsteps of Bunyan’s pilgrim Christian, as he walks from Bedford, or the City of Destruction, to London, the Celestial City. Along the way they visit the Slough of Despond (Elstow), the Palace Beautiful (Houghton House) and Vanity Fair (Ampthill). They start at the Bunyan Meeting House, where they meet John Pestell, and finish at Bunyan’s resting place, Bunhill Fields.
2022 marks the 350th anniversary of the Bunyan Meeting House on its current site.
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (Penguin Classics)
The Pilgrim’s Progress, read by David Shaw-Parker (Naxos Audiobook)
https://naxosaudiobooks.com/pilgrim-s-progress-the-unabridged/
Rachel Joyce
https://www.rachel-joyce.co.uk/
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Love Song of Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
Maureen and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce
Travel with John Bunyan by John Pestell
https://www.dayone.co.uk/products/travel-with-john-bunyan
John Bunyan Meeting House and Museum
https://www.bunyanmeeting.co.uk/
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Tayeb Salih in London. The novelist Leila Aboulela meets Henry in London to discuss Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, which was voted the most important Arab novel of the 20th century by the Arab Literary Academy in Damascus. The novel is set in both a small village in northern Sudan and various locations in London, the city that Tayeb Salih made his home. Leila and Henry visit Victoria Station, Speaker’s Corner, the London Central Mosque, the Old Bailey and Cleopatra’s Needle.
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Penguin Modern Classics)
Leila Aboulela
http://www.leila-aboulela.com/
The Translator by Leila Aboulela
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-translator/
The Minaret by Leila Aboulela
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minaret-9780747579427/
London Central Mosque
The Old Bailey
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/law-historic-governance/central-criminal-court
The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih (NYRB Classics)
https://www.nyrb.com/collections/tayeb-salih/products/the-wedding-of-zein
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Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon. The translator and biographer Richard Zenith meets Henry in Lisbon to sift the fragments of Fernando Pessoa’s extraordinary ‘non-book’, The Book of Disquiet. They visit the cafes where Pessoa liked to drink, they meet Clara Riso, director of the Casa Fernando Pessoa, and they walk from the hills of Lisbon to the edge of the River Tagus.
2022 is the 40th anniversary of the first, posthumous publication of The Book of Disquiet.
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin Modern Classics edition)
The Book of Disquiet, trans. Richard Zenith, read by Adam Sims (Naxos Audiobook)
https://naxosaudiobooks.com/book-of-disquiet-the-unabridged/
Pessoa’s poems, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics edition)
Fernando & Co.: Selected Poems, trans. Richard Zenith
https://groveatlantic.com/book/fernando-pessoa-co/
Pessoa: An Experimental Life by Richard Zenith
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/445182/pessoa-by-zenith-richard/9780141998299
Casa Fernando Pessoa
https://www.casafernandopessoa.pt/en/cfp
Café a Brasileira
https://www.abrasileira.pt/?lang=en
Café Martinho da Arcada
Livraria Bertrand, the oldest bookshop in the world
https://www.bertrand.pt/livrarias/livraria-bertrand-chiado/900
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E. M. Forster in Cambridge. The cultural historian Diarmuid Hester joins Henry to explore the streets and colleges of Cambridge before escaping to the greenwood to discuss Maurice by E. M. Forster, his novel of same-sex love that remained unpublished throughout his lifetime. Diarmuid and Henry visit King’s College, where Forster lived both as an undergraduate and an honorary fellow and they visit Madingley Hall and Madingley Dell.
2021 was the 50th anniversary of the first, posthumous publication of Maurice in 1971.
Maurice by E. M. Forster (Penguin Classics edition)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60370/maurice-by-ed--steven-d-levitt-em-forster/9780141441139
Maurice by E. M. Forster, read by Ben Whishaw (Audible audiobook)
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Maurice-Audiobook/B08CVRKWYH
Diarmuid Hester
https://www.diarmuidhester.com/
Nothing Ever Just Disappears by Diarmuid Hester
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/445054/nothing-ever-just-disappears-by-hester-diarmuid/9780241528457
King’s College Archive
https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/archive-centre/e-m-forster-and-king-s
Madingley Hall
https://www.madingleyhall.co.uk/
Adrian Barlow’s article about Madingley Dell
http://adrianbarlowsblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-threat-to-madingley-dell.html
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Leonora Carrington in the Ardèche. The journalist and biographer Joanna Moorhead joins Henry in the south of France to discuss her cousin, the surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington. They trace Carrington’s life story to Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche, where she lived with the artist Max Ernst, and discuss her spectacular feminist, eco-apocalypse novel The Hearing Trumpet.
Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Naxos audiobook of The Hearing Trumpet, read by Siân Phillips
https://naxosaudiobooks.com/hearing-trumpet-the-unabridged/
Joanna Moorhead
http://www.joannamoorhead.org/
The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead
Leonora Carrington at the Tate
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/leonora-carrington-7615
Leonora Carrington at the Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
https://uk.arken.dk/udstilling/leonora-carrington/
Leonora Carrington at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
https://mam.inba.gob.mx/leonora-carrington-cuentos-magicos
Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche
https://www.france-voyage.com/cities-towns/saint-martin-d-ardeche-29317.htm
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Thomas de Quincey & William S. Burroughs in Soho. The novelist Will Self joins Henry in London to explore the opium dreams and heroin nightmares of Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater and William S. Burrough’s Junky. They walk from Oxford Street to Covent Garden, and along the way they also discuss The Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley and Will’s own 2019 drugs memoir, Will.
2022 is the 200th anniversary of the book publication of Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
Penguin Classics edition of Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas de Quincey
Naxos audiobook of Confessions of an English Opium Eater,read by Gunnar Cauthery
https://naxosaudiobooks.com/confessions-of-an-english-opium-eater-unabridged/
https://apple.co/3SgGjTB
Penguin Modern Classics edition of Junky by William S. Burroughs
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57608/junky-by-william-s-burroughs-intro-oliver-harris/9780141189826
W. F. Howes audiobook of Junky read by Mark Nelson
https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781471212291
https://apple.co/3ReJ3zt
Will Self
Will by Will Self
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/176727/will-by-self-will/9780141046402
W. F. Howes audiobook of Will, read by Will Self
https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528888219
The Colony Room Club – in pictures
William S. Burroughs and the Moka Bar
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On the Road with Penguin Classics is the literary podcast that takes a stroll around the world's favourite books. In each episode, author Henry Eliot travels to a different literary location to explore a brilliant book in the company of remarkable readers.
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