Already installed? The first button opens this exact place. After installing, return here and tap it.
Open this link on your phone to go to this place in the app.
How to install the early version through TestFlight
Get TestFlight. Tap the button, then go to the App Store from Apple’s page. TestFlight is Apple’s free app for early versions.
Come back here and tap the button again. In TestFlight, accept the invitation and install Peplos.
After installing Peplos, return to this page and tap “Open this place in Peplos”.
How the story begins
"You will be greatly shocked and grieved to hear that the Raven is no more." Charles Dickens wrote that to a painter friend on 12 March 1841, and then he had the bird stuffed. The raven was called Grip. It lived at his London house, talked, buried coins and cheese in the garden, and bit people. He had already put it in a novel. Barnaby Rudge, published that year, gives its simple-minded hero, in Dickens's words, "a pet raven, who is immeasurably more knowing than himself."
The rest is in the app. Peplos plays the full story when you reach the place. You can also listen ahead of time.
Visiting
Parkway Central Library, Nineteenth and Vine Streets. The Rare Book Department is on the third floor. Check its hours before you go and ask whether Grip is on view.
