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    A Tale of Two Cities
    A Tale of Two Cities
    A Tale of Two Cities
    Audiobook15 hours

    A Tale of Two Cities

    Written by Charles Dickens

    Narrated by Keith Higinbotham

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    A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGolden Acorn Media
    Release dateMay 16, 2019
    ISBN9781987165661
    Author

    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth, where his father worked as a clerk. Living in London in 1824, Dickens was sent by his family to work in a blacking-warehouse, and his father was arrested and imprisoned for debt. Fortunes improved and Dickens returned to school, eventually becoming a parliamentary reporter. His first piece of fiction was published by a magazine in December 1832, and by 1836 he had begun his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. He focused his career on writing, completing fourteen highly successful novels, as well as penning journalism, shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.

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    • 5/5
      Great reading!! All the different voices and accents made it easy to tell all the characters distinctly from one another. Also a great story to stand the test of time.

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    • 5/5
      Easy to get lost as it is not the way we speak and write today. But it is totally worth it!

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    • 5/5
      The reader is as magnificent as the author and the story. Classic!

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    • 5/5
      How does one explain how good a story this is, how relevant it is to our modern day, and how it’s better every time I read it! If it wants for anything that would be how a few more pages added to it would have made it perfect. As there is nothing perfect in this life, this book comes pretty close. The reader shouldn’t be, or even possibly can be, the same person after having read it. Definitely, read it more than once in your lifetime.
    • 3/5
      It is an amazing book that made me sad and happy both at the same time.
    • 5/5
      One of the great classics absolutely for all the ages!
    • 3/5
      It was hard to follow what was always happening. Maybe would have been better if I would have read it instead of listened.
    • 5/5
      Slow at first but so so so so good once you're in it. If you're reading this for school trust me it's worth it haha just use spark notes for the first part.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Well, I’m just going to sit here with my Dickens spiritual updraft for a moment. I can’t believe it took me until my sixties to know this book. The beautiful reading doubles the understanding.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The narrator read it out far better than if I had read it myself - and bonus points for the accents; what a talent. And what a book! Off to watch its 1980 movie but I hope a (newer) movie is made of it in time ? 10/10 for me.

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