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Bunyan’s Progress: The Life and Genius of an English Puritan (Webinar)
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- In 1678 there appeared a book that told the remarkable story of an unremarkable man's journey to Paradise and the dangers he encountered along the way. Its author was a little-known Non-conformist evangelist who had more than once been jailed for unlicensed preaching. He was a veteran of the English Civil War and had grown up poor, with very little…
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A Look Back at the Future: 100 Years of Science Fiction (Webinar)
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- For close to a century Science Fiction has been one of the most popular—and one of the least critically respected—genres of fiction. This lecture follows the evolution of Science Fiction from its origins in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to its present-day pop-culture dominance, paying particular attention to the way the genre separated from its siblings Fantasy and Horror. We will trace…
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Tolkien’s Creation (16-Week Class)
- Price range: $350.00 through $875.00
- Although J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the best-selling and most influential writers of the past 100 years, it took the massive popular-culture success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films to get academia to begin to grudgingly recognize his literary achievement. Last century, when I was interviewing for my first academic job, I was advised to “tone down” my…
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What Became of the Weaving Maid’s Spindle? An Introduction to Chinese Folklore (Webinar)
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- We are familiar with the folktales, legends and myths that build the imaginative framework of Western literature. We know the answer to questions like: How did Red Riding Hood escape the great Wolf's belly? or Why does Demeter weep each winter? But we have no idea who shot down nine suns and saved the world from burning or what became…
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Players on a Cosmic Stage: The Grammar of Nature in Shakespeare (Mini-Class)
- Price range: $120.00 through $295.00
- We all know of The Great Bard, Shakespeare. We are all at least vaguely familiar with the natural world that surrounds us. It may be the case, though, that a relationship with the one actually relies at least partially upon a relationship with the other. The plays of Shakespeare are full of a common language of the land: birds, flowers,…
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The Chronicles of Narnia: A Complete Transmutation (Mini-Class)
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- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis offers readers a dazzling world full of Greek myth, medieval cosmology, modern philosophy, and an enduring love for story. While the series might appear to some as an apparent grab-bag of creative fixtures from time’s attic, the Chronicles in both genre and form weave together these disparate threads into an ordered tapestry which…
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Mary Poppins: Venus in a Blue Coat with Silver Buttons (Webinar)
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- P.L. Travers wrote, “Myths come, it is true, from the ancient past, but it is no less true that they, like the traditions round which they gather, are constantly being rediscovered, renewed and restated.” Enter Mary Poppins, part-Goddess, part-Celtic Warrior Fey, full-time nanny with a parrot umbrella. Like Venus pulling aside the veil to reveal the work of the gods…
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The Great Divide: Overcoming Modern Illiteracy (Previously Recorded 2026 Conference Talk)
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- This is recording of a previous talk from Angelina Stanford as part of the 2026 Literary Life Online Conference. Runtime: 1 session, 175 minutes
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Tell Me that Story Again: How The Pilgrim’s Regress Wrote C. S. Lewis (Webinar)
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- “As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.” This quotation from Proverbs 25:25 follows the title of C. S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress, and it evokes the by now very Lewisian idea of sehnsucht, that sweet, painful longing for some unnamable thing just out of reach. Lewis, in his preface to the third…
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Where Do We Go From Here? Reading for Life (6-Week Course With Optional 6-Week Add-On)
- Price range: $250.00 through $860.00
- Dr. Jason Baxter's book, Why Literature Still Matters hit a nerve, so much so that readers not only agreed with the premise (that we need literature in our technological age) but wanted to know: "Yes, I agree, but now what? Where do we go from here?" In this course, Dr. Baxter will provide a six-week-long addendum to Why Literature Still…
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The Righteous Outlaw from East to West: Turning the Tables in the Upside Down World (Webinar)
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- Within the world of stories, there is one kind of character which seems to cross every boundary- blurring lines of distance and time to greet us from many lands with many different faces, but with the same familiar voice. In Robin Hood, in the 108 outlaws of Liangshan marsh, in the Cowboys of the Wild West, in King David and…
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2026 Fellowship Interest Meeting
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- Students and teachers have been asking Angelina Stanford for years to develop a mentorship program--a way for students to be personally mentored and trained by her, to go deeper into their understanding of literature, literary theory, the imagination, and teaching practices and principles. To that end, we bring you another round of The Fellowship: A Literary Mentorship Program. This intimate Fellowship…
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2026-2027 Sibling Seat – How to Read Literature
- $357.50
- Note: This "Sibling Seat" Product is used to track sibling registrations for the "How to Read Literature" course. Sibling Seats cannot be purchased on their own. You should only add a Sibling Seat to your cart if you have first filled in sibling information in the main course product, found here: https://houseofhumaneletters.com/product/2026-2027-how-to-read-literature/
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2026-2027 Sibling Seat – Plutarch for Kids
- $307.50
- Note: This "Sibling Seat" Product is used to track sibling registrations for the "Plutarch for Kids" course. Sibling Seats cannot be purchased on their own. Please refer to the main course product here: https://houseofhumaneletters.com/product/2026-2027-plutarch-for-kids-classical-history-through-biography/
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2026-2027 Plutarch for Kids: Classical History Through Biography
- $615.00
- Please Note: This course has rotating content so that students may take the class more than once. Learn History through Biography: The Greek biographer Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is one of the cornerstones of Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy. Join Classicist Thomas Banks in his online class dedicated to exploring this classic book, with Themistocles (1st Semester)…
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2026-2027 Sibling Seat – Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- $357.50
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2026-2027 Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- $715.00
- A year-long in-depth study of Medieval and Renaissance English literature. Each work will be fully placed in its historical, philosophical, literary, and imaginative context. CS Lewis said that it's the duty of the reader to read the Great Books like the original audience; otherwise we cannot understand what we are reading. This takes work because we come to these texts…
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2026-2027 Sibling Seat – Readings in Medieval History (500-1400)
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2026-2027 Readings in Medieval History (500-1400)
- $715.00
- The collapse of the western Roman Empire marked the end of one world and the beginning of another. In this course students will be introduced to the formation of Christian Europe and its development over the course of nearly ten centuries. Students will be immersed in the kings, queens, soldiers, thinkers, monks, pilgrims and popes of the Medieval world, and…
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2026-2027 Sibling Seat – Later Modern Literature
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2026-2027 Later Modern Literature (1850-1950)
- $715.00
- The literary, intellectual and religious revolutions that took place in the 19th and 20th centuries were events whose echoes remain with us still. The purpose of this course is to guide the student through some of the best literary fiction written in that time period, placing each book within its historical and imaginative context with background information on the authors’…
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2026-2027 Sibling Seat – Readings in Later Modern History
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2026-2027 Readings in Later Modern History (1800-2000)
- $715.00
- After the French Revolution, Europe had been changed permanently in its political, cultural, and spiritual life. The Napoleonic Wars, Industrial Revolution, Victorian Age, followed in the 20th century by the two world wars and growth of totalitarianism, represent one of the most dramatic and most violent periods of recorded history. Students who enroll in this course are encouraged but not…
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2026-2027 Sibling Seat – Latin Foundations
- $187.50
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