Brief description
Charles Dickens's reading copy of 'The Bastille Prisoner', 1861
Label
Dickens adapted many of his stories for public reading, removing sections and adding clarifications and stage directions. This book was a section of A Tale of Two Cities Dickens planned to perform. Although he made careful edits, deletions, and wrote cues in the margins to moan, sigh, knock his desk or kiss his hand, Dickens never performed this story. We do not know the reason why, but it must have been after he went through all this work.
Collection
Library
Object number
[lib]6689
Object type
book
Title
The Bastille Prisoner
Production person
Dickens, Charles
Production organisation
W.Clowes & Son
Production date
1861

Reading copy of 'The Bastille Prisoner'