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Podcast: Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Episode: A Sample of my audio narration of “A Tale of Two Cities,” by Charles Dickens
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This chapter of “A Tale of Two Cities,” is called “The Gorgon’s Head,” and is one of the more difficult chapters in the novel to narrate, at least in my opinion. It has more than its share of the long, meandering and prolix sentences for which Dickens was famous. Even when read with the eyes, it takes time to make sense of them. On top of that it has extensive dialogue intertwined with lines from the omniscient narrator. One saving grace is that the characters are typically “over the top” in their demeanor, either simon pure (Charles Darnay...