Kate's Klassics

Collection items

• Kate's Klassic: A Question of Upbringing

  5 Sep 2015

  Kate Camp is a published poet, and will discuss the 1951 novel A Question of Upbringing, the first volume of A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Passport to Hell

  8 Aug 2015

  Wellington poet discussing the 1936 novel Passport to Hell by Robyn Hyde, republished this year by Auckland University Press in an edition that includes Hyde's final authorised text from 1937. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Oliver Twist

  22 Dec 2007

  Kate Camp discusses Charles Dickens' second novel. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Beowulf

  9 Feb 2008

  Kate Camp discusses the translation by Seamus Heaney of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: All Quiet on the Western Front

  8 Mar 2008

  Kate Camp discusses All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Catch 22

  5 Apr 2008

  Kate Camp discusses the acclaimed anti-war novel Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Doctor Zhivago

  3 May 2008

  Kate Camp discusses Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Mrs Dalloway

  31 May 2008

  Kate Camp discusses the novel of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Dracula

  5 Jul 2008

  Kate Camp discusses the 1897 novel Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker, which served to popularise the idea of the vampire. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: The Day of the Triffids

  26 Jul 2008

  Kate Camp discusses John Wyndham's 1951 post-apocalyptic novel, The Day of the Triffids. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: The Trial

  23 Aug 2008

  Kate Camp discusses Franz Kafka's 1925 novel, The Trial. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  20 Sep 2008

  Kate Camp will discuss the 1961 novella The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: The Count of Monte Cristo

  18 Oct 2008

  Kate Camp discusses the 1840s novel, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Call of the Wild

  15 Nov 2008

  Kate Camp discusses The Call of the Wild by Jack London, which was first serialised in the Saturday Evening Post in 1903. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales

  13 Dec 2008

  Kate Camp discusses Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Rabbit, Run

  14 Feb 2009

  Kate Camp discusses the 1960 novel Rabbit, Run by American author John Updike. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: The French Lieutenant's Woman

  28 Mar 2009

  Kate Camp discusses the 1969 novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Notre Dame de Paris

  25 Apr 2009

  Kate Camp discusses the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). Audio

• Kate's Klassic: On The Road

  20 Jun 2009

  Kate Camp will discuss the largely autobiographical novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Interpretation of dreams

  18 Jul 2009

  Kate Camp will discuss the 1899 book The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: An Angel at My Table

  29 Aug 2009

  Kate Camp discusses Janet Frame's three volumes of autobiography, posthumously reprinted in 2008 as An Angel at My Table. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Inferno

  10 Oct 2009

  Kate Camp will discuss Inferno by Dante Alighieri, the first part of his epic poem The Divine Comedy. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: The Big Sleep

  12 Dec 2009

  Kate Camp discusses The Big Sleep, the 1939 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: Franny and Zooey

  20 Feb 2010

  Kate Camp discusses Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, originally published as short stories in The New Yorker, then as a collated book. Audio

• Kate's Klassic: The Aeneid

  27 Mar 2010

  Kate Camp discusses The Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil, translated and with an introduction by David West. Audio