A Tale of Two Cities: Part 2, Chapters 7-13

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to our ongoing conversation about Charles Dickens’ classic novel! In this episode, we discuss what the book is revealing itself to be about, the question of villainy in the story, the importance of the historical context, the differences in the various men who love Lucie, Dickens use of symblism, and much more. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:04.2	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.7	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:07.1	And you are listening to Close Rees, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities.
0:14.5	And in particular, we are discussing Book 2, chapters 7 through 13.
0:20.1	So we're well into the novel now.
0:22.2	We're deep into it.
0:24.9	Can't quit now is what I'm saying.
0:27.6	I mean, if you're going to.
0:28.8	I mean, you can quit anytime.
0:30.0	Don't quit.
0:31.3	You only got so many weeks in your life.
0:33.0	But don't quit.
0:34.7	Come along for the ride with us.
0:36.8	Sean, how's it going?
0:38.7	It's going well.
0:40.9	Nothing to report.
0:42.5	Nothing to report.
0:43.4	That could be taken a number of different ways.
0:45.0	Nothing to report because all is copacetic.
0:48.5	I should have scripted something here.
0:50.2	Well, David, we're looking at, I got nothing.
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