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The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

For the past ten years, the Murty Classical Library of India (published by Harvard University Press) has sought to do for classic Indian works what the famous Loeb Classical Library has done for Ancient Greek and Roman texts. In this episode, Jacke talks to editorial director Sharmila Sen about the joys and challenges of sifting through thousands of years of Indic works and bringing literary treasures to the general public, as well as a new book, Ten Indian Classics, which highlights ten of the fifty works published in the collection so far. PLUS bookmaker and book historian Adam Smyth (The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives) discusses his choice for the last book he will ever read. Additional listening: 613 Celebrating the Book-Makers (with Adam Smyth) 381 C. Subramania Bharati (with Mira T. Sundara Rajan) 552 Writing after Rushdie (with Shilpi Suneja) The music in this episode is by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Learn more at gabrielruizbernal.com. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglomerate Network and Lit Hub Radio.
0:09.5	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:13.2	Down time can be just fine, plain bangers from them 90s.
0:17.4	Tea break.
0:18.4	Lunch break.
0:19.5	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:20.9	Sometimes it's not time
0:22.3	for some tombola
0:23.1	right
0:23.5	it's enjoying lasagna time
0:25.7	chilling with a book time
0:27.4	or time to visit
0:28.6	your nan time
0:29.4	go on
0:30.4	play some other time
0:31.6	put your phone down
0:32.8	tombola
0:33.7	open for fun
0:35.4	terms apply 18 plus
0:37.1	gambleaware.org.
0:38.3	The new £5 pound meal deal from McDonald's.
0:41.3	Get a cheeseburger or mayo chicken, medium fries, four McNuggets and a medium soft drink for guess what?
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