A Tale of Two Cities
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4.3 • 50 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times...
The storming of the Bastille…the death carts with their doomed human cargo…the swift drop of the guillotine blade—this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with some memorable characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken father; Charles Darnay, the lover with a secret past; and dissolute Sydney Carton, whose unlikely heroism gives his life meaning.
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Customer Reviews
Likes a 1960's radio show
I am a non native speaker. Content is like an old fashioned radio show, with one person narrating and also acting out several characters all at the same time. Speech is clear. I owned a copy of the book and it sat on the shelf for many years. With the audiobook I finished 1/3 of it in 3 days.
Great, but not as great as could have been.
The story is great. The narrator, however, is not a voice actor in the caliber of others that have read other Dickens stories i have in my audio library. His impersonation of “Jerry Cruncher” is too loud and grating. Having too often to lower and raise the volume in too many places.