And so we come to the end of Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities! In this episode, we discuss the sometimes complicated nature of reading and writing historical fiction, the way Dickens ratchets up the drama in the section, the wonderful confrontation between Miss Pross and Madame Defarge, and much more! As always, thanks for listening and happy reading!
If you were writing a melancholy paper in your doleful cell in the Bastille where you were wrongfully imprisoned, using an iron pick and knowing you had extremely limited time in which to write in secret, how many paragraphs would you use for the preamble? Is 10 sufficient or would you go with enough to make the audiobook version 30 minutes long?
If you were writing a melancholy paper in your doleful cell in the Bastille where you were wrongfully imprisoned, using an iron pick and knowing you had extremely limited time in which to write in secret, how many paragraphs would you use for the preamble? Is 10 sufficient or would you go with enough to make the audiobook version 30 minutes long?
It's been done although probably without the iron pick. https://www.history.com/news/8-works-of-literature-written-from-prison
Pross: I am an Englishwoman.