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Ninety - The Raven and the Eye

• This episode takes a deep dive into two of Dickens’ greatest works A Tale of Two Cities and Barnaby Rudge as great examples of historical fiction.
• In Barnaby Rudge, a raven is one of the characters.  Poe and Dickens were friends, and could this be where Poe got the idea for his most famous work?

• What historical fiction did Dickens write?
• What did Sydney Carton give to Charles Darney?
• How many talking ravens did Dickens have?
• Why is The Pale Blue Eye great historical fiction?
• Where does most of The Pale Blue Eye take place?
• Who stars in the Netflix version of The Pale Blue Eye?
• Who is slated to star in the proposed “The Fall of the House of Usher”?

• 00:01 Introduction to podcast
• 00:53 Introduction to A Tale of Two Cities
• 03:02 Conclusion of A Tale of Two Cities
• 07:47 Info and Preface to Barnaby Rudge
• 9:06  Talking raven
• 11:24 Dickens writes further about Grip the Raven
• 16:22 Father Time from Barnaby Rudge
• 18:31 The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix)
• 21:27 The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)
• 22:06 Outro
• 22:29 Future episodes
• 24:01 Sources

Sources for this episode include A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens, The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night. by John Tresch, Poe and Place by Phillip Edward Phillips, and the Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott.

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