Discovering Dickens

[altariel]

A thread at Chicklit supplied a link to Stanford's Discovering Dickens project. For the past two years, the project has released, in serial form, facsimile versions of novels by Dickens. The two novels serialized so far have been Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.

The novel for 2005 is Hard Times, and you can sign up to receive weekly installments either as hard copies or as PDF files. The serialization will run from January to April.

Comments

[mgkellner.livejournal.com]

I downloaded the first chapters of A Tale of Two Cities. Most interesting. It is like a little bit of time travel.

In a sense, Dickens was doing what we are now, publishing popular trash in an out of control medium, with no adult supervision. Likely that is why it was good. Adult supervision always favors the dull and predictable. It is the counter culture which produces art, the adult culture produces sanitized copies of the last generation's art.

mk

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I like the little bits of other columns at the end of most of the chapters.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Nice link, thanks.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I've signed up for PDF files. I wonder if I'll get all the way through? My attention span is pretty short.

[avon7.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Thanks for the link. Not sure I'll sign up though - I'm still busy forcing myself to read 'Great Expectations' in the 3D version ;-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Is that David Lean's 3D version? ;-)

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Yo, nothing to do with your thread, but thought you might like this little penguin video (shown directly on the page, very small download)

http://amptoons.poliblog.com/blog/001294.html

[altariel.livejournal.com]

That's my boy.