A Tale of Two Cities
Written by Charles Dickens
Narrated by Keith Higinbotham
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About this audiobook
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.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. Regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, Dickens had a prolific collection of works including fifteen novels, five novellas, and hundreds of short stories and articles. The term “cliffhanger endings” was created because of his practice of ending his serial short stories with drama and suspense. Dickens’ political and social beliefs heavily shaped his literary work. He argued against capitalist beliefs, and advocated for children’s rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens advocacy for such causes is apparent in his empathetic portrayal of lower classes in his famous works, such as The Christmas Carol and Hard Times.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great 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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Easy to get lost as it is not the way we speak and write today. But it is totally worth it!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The reader is as magnificent as the author and the story. Classic!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How 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.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It is an amazing book that made me sad and happy both at the same time.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the great classics absolutely for all the ages!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It was hard to follow what was always happening. Maybe would have been better if I would have read it instead of listened.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Slow 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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well, 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.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 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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