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A Tale of Two Cities audiobook

  • By: Charles Dickens
  • Narrator: John Lee
  • Category: Classics, Fiction
  • Length: 14 hours 15 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2010
  • Language: English
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A Tale of Two Cities Audiobook Summary

Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens’s most popular and dramatic stories.

It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickens’s most exciting books—a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events. Famous for its vivid characters, including the courageous French nobleman Charles Darnay, the vengeful revolutionary Madame Defarge, and cynical Englishman Sydney Carton, who redeems his ill-spent life in a climactic moment at the guillotine (“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done”), the novel is also a powerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution, illuminated by Dickens’s lively comedy.

With an Introduction by Simon Schama

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A Tale of Two Cities Audiobook Narrator

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A Tale of Two Cities Full Details

Narrator John Lee
Length 14 hours 15 minutes
Author Charles Dickens
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 27, 2024
ISBN 9780307916082

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Additional info

The publisher of the A Tale of Two Cities is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Listening Library. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780307916082.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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