#tale of two cities

[lascitasdelashoras]

Literature Rocks Glass

[aceofspades-sml]

Hiya my fellow classic lit people I have a small question for you

Does anyone know a good movie/TV/stage adaptation for Dickens's Tale of two cities ? I know there are a few but. well I have often been disappointed with adaptations of classics and I can see how it would be hard for a movie to convey the spirit of this specific one so. If anyone has any recommendations I am all ears

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was running around my college campus trying to figure out when and where my engineering exam was. I finally realized I should just check the syllabus. I learned that this professor doesn’t do exams but has the students put on a play - a Tale of Two Cities ~of course~ - and the play had already happened and I missed it.

[ten-chocolate-sundaes]

time for the real contest, everybody.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

There’s 2 brothers. In a city. But it’s 2 cities. And it was the best of times. And then a meteor hit. And it was the worst of times. And they ran as fast as they could, from an epoch of belief, and an epoch of incredulity, and giant cat monsters, and that’s when a giant tornado hit, and things got kicked into 12th gear, because they’re, they’re 2 brothers, you see, in 2 cities, and

[chaoticpoeticlife]

i’m just a girl thinking about sydney carton on a daily basis

[hanhwrites]

I have no idea if this is a weird thing to ask but ok so let me explain the situation

I have to choose two books and create an essay and speech on them. A very long essay and a very long speech. I know that I really want to do Les Mis, if I can't, then it's ok, but I think it would be really great to do. I'm thinking I could focus on why people fight, maybe even death/life, I don't really know but that's where the thoughts are going.

Now my second book is a question. On the one hand, the Iliad, specifically focusing on Achilles, Patroclus, Agamemnon, and Hector. On the other hand, Tale of Two Cities. My worry for the Iliad is that it is not close enough to what I want to talk about and that any argument I could make would be really out there. My worry for Tale of Two Cities is that it is way too close to Les Mis content and theme wise.

Any thoughts?

too long; didn't read:

I have to pair either the Iliad or Tale of Two Cities with Les Mis for a big essay, which one?

[secretly-a-catamount]

Is a Gen Six Tale of Two Cities AU anything?

[itriedsohard]

PSA for the Les Mis fandom

If you love Les Miserables(specifically if you are like me and absolutely love Grantaire AND if you love Marius/Cosette) I AM BEGGING YOU to go listen to the Tale of Two Cities Musical, it’s got French Revolution, love, a cynical but still good drunk, amazing soundtrack and cast, just everything

[3rdeyesun]

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Working on Big Ben, that will be part of November’s exhibit at the art gallery I am a resident artist at. The theme is a “tale of two dresses” based on Charles Dickens “A Tale of Two Cities”

This is relevant as Pluto heads back into Aquarius the same as when the French Revolution took place.

[pixelgayte]

I had to read Tale of Two Cities for my AP lit class and found Sydney Carton so babygirl he single handedly gave me the will to finish that book thank you babygirl milk carton

[mira-lee]

Charles: Are you sober ?

Sydney: I'm moderately functional

Charles: I will take that as a no

[acceptedsimulation]

Past, Present, and Future Reads

Current, unfinished reads:

Dracula (1897) Rivals (1988) A Game of Thrones (1996) Crime and Punishment (1866)

Previously read books that I really enjoyed:

❅ To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) ❅ Go Set a Watchman (2015) ❅ Push (1996) ❅ Forever (1975) ❅ The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) ❅ Stalking Jack the Ripper series (2016-2019) ❅ The Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Treasury (1985) ❅ Claire of the Sea Light (2013) ❅ The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) ❅ A Tale of Two Cities (1859) ❅ Nothing But the Truth (1991) ❅ A Man Called Ove (2012) ❅ Fahrenheit 451 (1953) ❅ Animal Farm (1945) ❅ The Odyssey (1997) ❅ A Midsummer Night's Dream (2003) ❅The Great Gatsby (1925)

Books that I plan to read in the future:

❅ Frankenstein (1818) ❅ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave (1845) ❅ The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400) ❅ The Crucible (1953) ❅ Scarlet Letter (1850) ❅ Anna Karenina (1878) ❅ White Nights (1848) ❅ Hamlet (1623)

[madscientistcentral]

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[y-ve-squared]

It was the most kiki of times, it was the most bouba of times…

[laughingblue12]

The Uncritical Critic Likes to Read Books Too!

I told you before that I make a lousy movie critic because I watch anything and everything and like most of it.  You don’t believe me?  You can look it up through this link; The Uncritical Critic I hate to tell you this, but it is almost exactly the same for books too. The Paffooney is an illustration for a proposed collaboration on a children’s book.  My friend and fellow author Stuart R. West…