Episode 144: Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Bk. 3, Ch. 4-End
On this week\u2019s episode of The Literary Life Podcast, our hosts wrap up their series on Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Angelina opens the conversation about the book by highlighting Dickens\u2019 masterful ability to tie up all the loose ends in his stories. They cover not only the major plot points here at the end of the book, but talk about the craft of Dickens and continue to teach us how to read this type of story. We see each character\u2019s full arc and the positive changes that come when people choose repentance versus the fate of those who remain stubbornly on the road to destruction.
Join us next time for a special conversation with Jason Baxter, author of The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis.
After that, we will be digging into Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula together and learning more about this late Victorian Gothic novel. It\u2019s not what you might think!
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Commonplace Quotes:It is not the business of poetry to go about distributing tracts.
Andrew Lang
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people of very ordinary literary ability that they could write excellent continuations of The Screwtape Letters.
Fred Sanders
In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital \u2018S,\u2019 is not virtue \u2013 it\u2019s faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.
Robert Farrar Capon
Say not the Struggle nought AvailethReviewers who have not had time to reread Milton have failed for the most part to digest your criticism of him, but it is a reasonable hope that of those who heard you in Oxford, many will understand henceforward that when the old poets made some virtue their theme they were not teaching but adoring, and that what we take for the didactic is often the enchanted.
C. S. Lewis
by Arthur Hugh Clough
Say not the struggle nought availeth,\xa0
\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 The labour and the wounds are vain,\xa0
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,\xa0
\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 And as things have been they remain.\xa0
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;\xa0
\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 It may be, in yon smoke concealed,\xa0
Your comrades chase e\u2019en now the fliers,
\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 And, but for you, possess the field.\xa0
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking\xa0
\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Seem here no painful inch to gain,\xa0
Far back through creeks and inlets making,\xa0
\xa0 \xa0 \xa0Comes silent, flooding in, the main.\xa0
And not by eastern windows only,\xa0
\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 When daylight comes, comes in the light,\xa0
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,\xa0
\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 But westward, look, the land is bright.
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Between Noon and Three by Robert Farrar Capon
A Preface to Paradise Lost by C. S. Lewis
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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
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