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Podcast: Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Episode: “The Substance of the Shadow” from Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities
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In this chapter, Dr. Manette’s long-buried message, found in the Bastille by Ernest Defarge, is used to condemn Charles Darnay, son-in-law of the good doctor and husband of his fair daughter, to death at the Guillotine! In vain does Dr. Manette protest that he no longer condemned the entire Evremonde family to the last of its line, now that the latest Marquis, dear Charles, has his head on the block. Madame Defarge is confidant that her use of the doctor’s note of condemnation will foil the doctor’s effort to free Charles.
And, not only...