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Podcast: Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Episode: “The Grindstone,” from A Tale of Two Cities
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Another entry in my evolving audio narration of Charles Dickens’s magisterial novel, A Tale of Two Cities. This chapter is called “The Grindstone.” It is a difficult chapter to read because it involves characters of different sexes exchanging dialogue quickly and in states of duress. Unlike other chapters where the characters are over the top in the writing, and where as a result the dialogue can be read in a similar fashion, here the pathos must be presented sympathetically with a minimum of melodrama. I hope I have succeeded!
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