Ars Libri
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John Milton "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A deeply profound poem, worth memorizing and reciting during Christmastide. It brings depth, gravitas, and power to our sentimental holiday season.Rea...
Christmas Story by H.L. Mencken
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comH.L. Mencken was a journalist in the early 20th century whose satir...
Elin's Amerika by Marguerite de Angeli
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A wonderful book that tells the story of Elin, a young Swedish girl who immigrates to the New Sweden Colony along the Delaware River in 1648, and her ...
C.S. Lewis "On Stories", part 2
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comC.S. Lewis wrote many essays on literature and fiction. “On Stori...
"One Little Tree: A Christmas Card of a Finnish Landscape" by E.M. Almedingen
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“One Little Tree: A Christmas Card of a Finnish Landscape” by E.M. Almedingen is a Finnish story of Christmas during WWI. It follows Arni who prom...
Everyman's Plutarch Ep. 10: Horatius At The Bridge
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comEpic poem by Thomas Babington Macaulay, not in length but in greatn...
Shakespeaere's Much Ado About Nothing
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A hilarious comedy set in Messina that follows two sets of lovers: Claudio and Hero, and Benedict and Beatrice.Plays were meant to be performed and wa...
George MacDonald "The Princess And The Goblin"
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We actually cover “The Princess And The Goblin” and its sequel “The Princess And Curdie.” With a special guest! This is a public episode. If y...
C.S. Lewis "On Stories", part 1
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comC.S. Lewis wrote many essays on literature and fiction. “On Stori...
Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities"
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Tale of Two Cities is a classic historical novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1859, that weaves a gripping story of love, sacrifice, and revolut...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë follows the passionate, destructive love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, whose tumultuous relationship s...
Russian Fairytales by Alexander Afanasyev
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More violent, wild, and yet more Christian - in some ways - than other fairy tale collections. Since there are over 600 of these tales, we only cover ...
G.K. Chesterton "The Ethics Of Elfland"
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comIn Chesterton’s book Orthodoxy, the fourth chapter is entitled “...
C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lewis’ Space Trilogy includes Out Of The Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. In darker yet more gripping themes than his other wri...
Everyman's Plutarch Ep. 6: Miltiades
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comMiltiades was the Athenian general who led the victory of Athens ag...
Jane Austen's "Sense And Sensibility"
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With special guest Mrs. Bendwell Werry. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes...
Everyman's Plutarch Ep. 5: Solon
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comSolon created Athenian democracy by writing new and better laws tha...
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Classical Myths in the skies. Christian Myth in the stars. Tech as a bridge to Mystery. Expansive spirit of Europeans.A ship bearing 50 men and women ...
Tolkien On Fairy Stories, part 2
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comIn "On Fairy-stories," J.R.R. Tolkien provides a comprehensive expl...
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
HCA compiled numerous tales and wrote many of his own. They are full of both fantasy and realism.One never graduates or outgrows true fairy tales.We h...
Everyman's Plutarch Ep. 4: Numa
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comThe Solomon-like second king of Rome. Numa Pomilius was Plato’s i...
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A true classic in the way it captures the world of its time so well and how each of the characters have a depth and rich story arc. We discuss the cen...
Everyman's Plutarch Ep. 3: Lycurgus
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comLycurgus was the law-giver of Sparta - like Moses for the Hebrews -...
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lonesome Dove is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Western epic by Larry McMurtry. The story follows retired Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call as ...
Tolkien On Fairy Stories, part 1
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comWe read and discuss Tolkien’s essay On Faerie Stories, where Tolk...
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is one of those books I never would have read except that my children asked me. And then the story turned out to profoundly rival many that I hav...
Everyman's Plutarch Ep. 2: Romulus
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comEveryman’s Plutarch series provides short biographies about famou...
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tolstoy’s writing is long, deep, and serious. He pulls you into the lives and characters of his subjects. You become bound up with their actions and...
Everyman's Plutarch Ep. 1: Theseus
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit arslibri.substack.comTheseus is the first character discussed in Plutarch’s Lives. So,...
Aesop's Fables
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Western morality is bound up with the deceptively profound lessons of Aesop’s Fables. Men of old took them seriously. Ancient students memorized the...
Watership Down by Richard Adams
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A modern epic that reaches back to classic stories to create something new. Worth reading as a tale in itself and as 20th century political worldview....
Ars Libri Introduction
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What the podcast is about, who it’s for, and why you should join the journey. Free to listen. If you enjoy, please support by subscribing and sharin...