A Tale of Two Cities: Book 3, Chapters 1-8
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to our ongoing series on Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities! This week we’re chatting about scenes that make this section exciting, the political context of the story, what Dickens’ worldview seems to be based on some of the metaphors he uses in the book, and much more. Happy listening!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm David Kern. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm Heidi White. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Sean Johnson. |
| 0:07.1 | And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Charles Dickens, a tale of two cities. |
| 0:13.8 | We are discussing the first nine chapters of part the third. |
| 0:19.1 | Although we did on the fly pivot as we were just coming on the zoom mics here, |
| 0:25.8 | that we are actually not going to talk about nine. We're going to stop it at eight because nine |
| 0:30.9 | cuts off right before Dr. Menet's letter. Is that right? Yeah, that's right. And so we're going to include nine in next week's |
| 0:40.4 | episode. So we're going to discuss chapters one through eight. So we will do the summary in here |
| 0:46.1 | in just a few minutes. But that is what we're going to do. This is our, to use Sean's favorite |
| 0:51.6 | word, anti-penultimate episode on a tale of two cities. |
| 0:54.7 | We are going to discuss the first eight chapters of part the third today. |
| 0:57.3 | We are going to discuss the rest of part the third next week. |
| 1:00.7 | And then we will do our Q&A episode. |
| 1:02.7 | So we will post the thread a little early. |
| 1:06.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:06.5 | We'll just see. |
| 1:06.9 | Maybe I'll get crazy post a little early. |
| 1:08.1 | If you want to post questions for that episode now, I mean, why not? |
| 1:13.5 | You know, you go ahead and do that. |
| 1:15.3 | And, uh, I love that. |
| 1:17.2 | I see where things take us. |
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