Classics Series: A Jane Austen Discussion

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Our next installment in the Book Case Classics series comes from listeners like you. Many of you asked for Austen…you wanted it? You got it! We sat down with two of the world’s foremost Austen Scholars, Claudia L. Johnson, Murray Professor of English at Princeton and Devoney Looser, Regents Professor at Arizona State University (both of which have great Austen books on the market) to discuss the facts and fiction surround the great Jane Austen and her unique works. Join us! Find books mentioned on The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned in this week's episode: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Emma by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Persuasion by Jane Austen 30 Great Myths about Jane Austen by Claudia L. Johnson Jane Austen: Women, Politics and the Novel by Claudia L. Johnson Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Devoney Looser Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet,
0:06.3	Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11am.
0:18.1	Price and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:28.4	Well, hello there, bibliophiles.
0:31.0	Welcome to a version of the bookcase.
0:32.9	This is the bookcase classics.
0:35.6	Oh, sorry, I didn't know you were throwing to me.
0:37.3	I didn't realize the pause after classic.
0:55.6	I'm Kate. Hi, and I am a classic, and I'm talking and I'm here with the most classic of all classics, my father, who should probably introduce himself as well. Hello. And I'm Charlie Gibson. It is good to have you with us. We started before Christmas a year ago, and to be absolutely honest, fully transparent, we didn't have a really good book for that week.
1:01.9	Yeah, the classic theory started out of desperation. Yeah, it did. But we have this deal where,
1:08.3	unless both of us really can recommend a book, there have been a couple
1:12.2	of exceptions, but for the most part, we have stuck to that. And we struck out a year ago,
1:18.7	and we looked at each other and said, what are we going to do? And then we thought it's
1:22.1	Christmas time. Let's do a classic. And so we went back and read the Christmas Carol by Charles
1:27.4	Dickens, or as the two
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