Day 117 of 18065% of the book
Episode XIV · Oxen of the Sun

Dickens and Carlyle: the prose reaches the nineteenth century

Today's passage · lines 14.931–1070

The 2-minute recap

The style now shifts into something like Dickens' sentimental warmth and then Carlyle's thunderous moral seriousness. …

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