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Hey folks, it's Jack with some exciting news. Are you someone who loves books and loves to travel?

We have teamed up with a travel agency to present to you the opportunity to travel through the literary landscape with me,

Jack Wilson, and Emma, the show's producer, and your fellow podcast listeners, meaning some of your

favorite history of literature podcast guests along the way. That's right, we're going to England.

Eight days of travel in literary London, Oxford, and Bath,

where we'll follow in the footsteps of Shakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, and more.

This is the last few weeks when you can sign up. So go to John Shores Travel, that's John,

S-H-O-R-S, with no E, or to History of Literature.com and find the itinerary that way.

We would love to have you join us for this very special event in May.

But you must sign up now.

We have to close the sign-ups on March 1st.

I hope to see you soon.

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Hello, he was a man of immense vitality. Mark Twain said his eyes burned with smoldering rich fire.

And from his home in Scotland,

he developed a taste for adventure. I loved a ship, Robert Louis Stevenson once said, as a man loves burgundy or daybreak. He also loved telling stories and the things in the world and reading.

We talked to critically acclaimed biographer Leo

Damroche about his new book about Robert Louis Stevenson today on the history of literature.

Okay, here we go. Welcome, everyone. I'm so glad you're here today. I'm Jack Wilson, the host.

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