The Classic Literature Podcast.

Send us Fan Mail The Classic Literature Podcast. My monthly podcast that looks at famous classic books I have been reading and considers them with an eye on any original Christian cultural perspectives. Charles Dickens - Hard Times (1857) Fact Fire, and the Machinery of the Human Spirit. Welcome to Hard Times, Dickens’s shortest novel, and in many ways, his sharpest. This is Dickens at his most pr...

Send us Fan Mail The Classic Literature Podcast. My monthly podcast that looks at famous classic books I have been reading and analyzes them with an eye on any original Christian cultural perspectives. Charles Dickens - Bleak House (1853) Justice, and the Human Heart. Episode Notes:  This month, I have been reading one of the greatest achievements of Charles Dickens’s imagination. A novel vast in...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I look at what Charles Dickens himself called his “favourite child; David Copperfield. This is Dickens turning the pen towards interpreting his own life. It is a redemption story where childhood becomes the soil in which the soul can grow in grace, and where the search for identity becomes a spiritual pilgrimage. This is Dickens at his most personal and his most vulnerable,...

Send us Fan Mail (Please note this episode was originally recorded and release on Christmas Eve 2025 a free 'subscribes  only' bonus episode for people following me on Patreon).  Episode Notes: Few stories have entered the cultural bloodstream like A Christmas Carol. First published in December 1843, it was an instant success—selling out its first edition within days and never going out...

Send us Fan Mail Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop.  (Please note this episode was the first of My Charles Dickens episodes originally recorded in 2025 as a free 'subscribes  only' bonus episode for people following the Bible Project Daily Podcast on Patreon).  Episode Notes: Hello and welcome to today’s episode, where I drop into the world of Martin Chuzzlewit—the Dickens novel t...

Send us Fan Mail When Charles Dickens published Dombey and Son in 1846, he stepped into a deeper, darker, and more mature phase of his writing. If A Christmas Carol is the gospel wrapped in snow and candlelight, Dombey and Son is the truth spoken through grief, pride, and the slow unravelling of a man who believes he is untouchable. Spiritually, Dombey and Son is a story of idolatry and it undoing...

Send us Fan Mail Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge.  (Please note this episode was originally recorded in December 2025 as a free 'subscribes  only' bonus episode for people following the Bible Project Daily Podcast on Patreon).  To obtain the Copyright free recording of this book that I used in this recording by Actress Mil Nicholson  visit: Barnaby Rudge (version 2) |  Episode Notes: Bar...

Send us Fan Mail Charles Dickens. Nicholas Nickleby. (1839)   (Please not e this episode was originally recorded in Oct 2025 as a free 'subscribes  only' bonus episode for people following the Bible Project daily Podcast on Patreon).  Episode Notes: In this episode, we journey through Nicholas Nickleby —Dickens’s third novel and his first great act of moral protest. From the cruelty of D...

Send us Fan Mail Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop.  (Please note this episode was originally recorded in Oct 2025 as a free 'subscribes  only' bonus episode for people following the Bible Project Daily Podcast on Patreon).  To obtain the Copyright free recording of this book that I used in this recording by Actress Mil Nicholson  visit: The Old Curiosity Shop (version 2) | LibriV...

Send us Fan Mail What if the most Christlike figure in a Dickens novel wasn’t a clergyman… but a condemned woman? In this episode, we walk through the shadows of Oliver Twist —from the innocence of Oliver to the sacrifice of Nancy, and the judgment that falls upon Sikes. Join me as we uncover how Dickens used fiction to preach mercy, confront cruelty, and stir the soul. Last time, we wandered thro...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we’re turning the page on the book that started it all: The Pickwick Papers.  This is Dickens before the fog, before the orphans, before the murderers and moral reckonings. It’s his debut novel, published in 1836, and it’s bursting with youthful exuberance, absurd adventures, and a kind of joy that insists that life, despite its pratfalls, is worth celebrating. We meet Mr....

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The First Ever Episode of The Classic Literature Podcast. “In the beginning was the Word…” — John 1:1 Welcome to The Classic Literature Podcast.  I’m your host, Jeremy McCandless, and I’m so glad you’ve joined me for this first episode of a new bi-monthly journey—one that explores the great works of classic literature, approaching these great books via the world out of...