Episode 17: Stories across time

Good Librations Podcast Episode 17 Stories Across Time

Come along on a journey full of quests and monsters as we discover if there really are only seven great stories in the world.

This month we ask what are the actual odds of going from rags to riches? What was the worst makeover in cinematic history? Why do we love stories about our darker halves? And, oh look, it's The Odyssey. Again.

Listen along as we break down the world's favourite tales and why they endure.

Find out all this and more in this month's episode of Good Librations.

 

Shelf-absorbed (books we reviewed)

After the Forest by Kell Woods

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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Shelf-important (things we mentioned)

The Guardian: Classic Stories Retold

Autocrit: 7 Stories World

Robert Louis Stevenson.org: Retellings

Scribophile: What are story achetypes

Britannica: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

New World Encylopedia: Cinderella

Britannica: Treasure Island

Britannica: The Odyssey 

Britannica: Pygmalion

Britannica: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakespeare.org: Romeo and Juliet

LA Times: Study Finds Rags-to-Riches Leap Is Rare

Kristen Lamb: The Quest: “The Tip of the Spear” & The Hero’s Journey Meets Memoir

 

Books/written works:

  • Beowulf
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Mr Hyde-de-Ho by Veronica Parker Johns
  • The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde by Emma Tennant
  • Dr Jekyll, Orthodontist by Dan Greenburg
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
  • Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
  • The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
  • Jekyll and Hyde the musical by Leslie Bricusse
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine
  • The Prince & the Pauper by Mark Twain
  • Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Cinderella by Charles Perrault
  • Cinder by Marisa Meyer
  • Into the Woods musical by Stephen Sondheim
  • Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
  • Ash & Bramble by Sarah Prineas
  • Geekerella by Ashley Poston
  • Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Treasure Island: Runaway Gold by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • The Adventures of Long John Silver by Denis Judd
  • The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
  • Pieces of Eight by John Drake
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
  • Circe by Madeline Miller
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  • My Fair Lady musical by Alan Jay Lerner
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • As you like it by William Shakespeare
  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
  • Midsummer’s Mayhem by Rajani LaRocca
  • Love in Idleness by Amanda Craig
  • Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills
  • Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
  • A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  • Othello by William Shakespeare
  • Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
  • The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke
  • West Side Story musical by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim (
  • Ronit & Jamil by Pamela L. Laskin
  • These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber


Movies/shows:

  • Jaws
  • Jurassic Park
  • Wishbone
  • Treasure Planet
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • Castaway
  • O Brother Where Art Thou
  • Finding Nemo
  • Spongebob Squarepants
  • Beauty & the Beast
  • The Lion King
  • She’s All That
  • Pretty Woman
  • Ruby Sparks
  • Selfie
  • The Breakfast Club
  • Monty Python
  • Love Actually
  • Rosaline 

Shelf-obsessed (further reading)

  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • Cinder by Marissa Meyer
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • Circe by Madeline Miller
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
  • The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare