The Shoemaker: Lessons in imagery from Charles Dickens
n just one paragraph from Book 1, Chapter 5 of A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens teaches a master-class to those of us who would use similes to make communication more vivid.
The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare [...]




