A Tale of Two Cities: Book 2, Chapters 1-6

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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We’re back with another conversation on Charles Dickens’ classical novel, and this time we discuss the introduction of Sidney Carton and Charles Darnay—and the way Dickens employs doubling to develop them as characters alongside the key themes of the book. Plus: a great Dickens-ism, a few wonderful scenes, chat on Dickens and dialogue, questions about how Dickens writes women, and much more. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. And I'm Sean Johnson. And you are listening to Close
0:08.8	Reeds, a podcast for The Incurable Reader, on which we are discussing Charles Dickens,
0:13.7	A Tale of Two Cities. In particular, we are discussing the first six chapters of book
0:20.4	the second. So it's really the seventh through the 12th
0:23.6	chapters of the book. I don't really know about all the different editions in this. But I think that
0:27.8	all of the ones that I have seen do have it divided into books the first, the second, the third,
0:32.2	and so forth. So I think it's safe to say that we are reading the first six books for six chapters of book two.
0:40.5	It's the section that ends with the chapter called hundreds of people.
0:43.2	We'll tell you that.
0:44.8	We'll get to that.
0:45.6	And we'll get to us.
0:46.2	We'll do a little summary of what we talked about very briefly here in a second.
0:49.6	We will, or what happened in this section.
0:52.0	We want to give you a summary of what we talked about because we haven't talked about it yet
0:55.2	so we can't do that.
0:56.2	But we can tell you
0:57.2	what we're going to talk about
0:58.2	loosely.
1:00.2	Hi, the construct.
1:02.3	That's right.
1:03.9	What do you think Dickens would think of that?
1:06.7	I don't know, but he could write
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