Dickens the Old Fashioned Way
A month or so ago, Eric Albert and I were discussing our reading habits, and I mentioned that, while I was an English minor in college, nowadays my time constraints prevent me from reading much fiction. I am still an avid reader of magazines, however, and I mused that I would probably read more fiction if today’s writers would parcel out their work out in serial form the way Charles Dickens did.
To my amazement, a few days later, Eric sent me a link to Stanford’s “Discovering Dickens” project, which this year is publishing a free series of facsimiles replicating the weekly serial through which A Tale of Two Cities was published. I signed up and got my first issue the other day. While the print is a little difficult to read, I definitely look forward to fulfilling my New Year’s resolution to read more fiction by experiencing Dickens the old fashioned way.