A Tale of Two Cities: Final Chapters

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

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!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:03.5	I'm Heidi White.
0:04.8	And you're listening to Close Reads, a podcast for The Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.
0:13.3	We are discussing the final chapters, the final six or seven chapters, nine, chapter nine of part three and beyond,
0:21.6	unto the ages of ages.
0:23.2	We are here to discuss the political upheaval of the French Revolution
0:28.4	to discuss Charles Dickens' skillet, creating drama,
0:32.3	and whatever else comes up, because, you know, it's closer,
0:35.8	things come up.
0:36.6	Speaking of which, Sean, how is it going?
0:39.0	It's going fine.
0:41.5	Oh, usually you say, well.
0:43.4	It's going well.
0:44.3	Today it's just fine, huh?
0:45.8	It's, you know, life's crazy.
0:48.5	But I'm alive.
0:50.1	Oh, thank God.
0:51.3	Are you, uh, that's the bar?
0:54.9	This time of year, it kind of feels like that.
0:57.3	Yeah, yeah, that's right.
0:58.1	Yeah.
0:59.4	Yeah.
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