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A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

15 h · 45 chapters · read by 20 LibriVox volunteers

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." London and Paris in the years of the French Revolution: a doctor freed after eighteen years in the Bastille, his daughter, the French émigré she marries and Sydney Carton, the dissolute lawyer who loves her. Charles Dickens's 1859 novel, with one of the most famous endings in English.

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Chapters

  1. I.I: The Period 6:49
  2. I.II: The Mail 14:53
  3. I.III: The Night Shadows 12:07
  4. I.IV: The Preparation 29:57
  5. I.V: The Wineshop 26:23
  6. I.VI: The Shoemaker 23:42
  7. II.I: Five Years Later 14:19
  8. II.II: A Sight 17:55
  9. II.III: A Disappointment 36:14
  10. II.IV: Congratulatory 17:33
  11. II.V: The Jackal 14:30
  12. II.VI: Hundreds of People 26:20
  13. II.VII: Monseigneur in Town 22:40
  14. II.VIII: Monseigneur in the Country 13:37
  15. II.IX: The Gorgon's Head 27:44
  16. II.X: Two Promises 21:07
  17. II.XI: A Companion Picture 7:53
  18. II.XII: The Fellow of Delicacy 14:46
  19. II.XIII: The Fellow of no Delicacy 18:18
  20. II.XIV: The Honest Tradesman 24:56
  21. II.XV: Knitting 26:16
  22. II.XVI: Still Knitting 30:34
  23. II.XVII: One Night 11:53
  24. II.XVIII: Nine Days 16:57
  25. II.XIX: An Opinion 21:09
  26. II.XX: A Plea 7:25
  27. II.XXI: Echoing Footsteps 26:18
  28. II.XXII: The Sea Still Rises 13:01
  29. II.XXIII: Fire Rises 19:51
  30. II.XXIV: Drawn to the Loadstone Rock 30:00
  31. III.I: In Secret 26:31
  32. III.II: The Grindstone 14:44
  33. III.III: The Shadow 12:44
  34. III.IV: Calm in Storm 15:02
  35. III.V: The Woodsawyer 16:43
  36. III.VI: Triumph 17:29
  37. III.VII: A Knock at the Door 11:45
  38. III.VIII: A Hand at Cards 30:26
  39. III.IX: The Game Made 27:45
  40. III.X: The Substance of the Shadow 35:49
  41. III.XI: Dusk 9:15
  42. III.XII: Darkness 19:30
  43. III.XIII: Fiftytwo 23:52
  44. III.XIV: The Knitting Done 28:16
  45. III.XV: The Footsteps Die Out For Ever 14:37

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017), Betsie Bush, Caroline Morse, Chip, Deborah Clark, Denny Sayers (d. 2015), Jamey Osborne, Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023), KentF, Kevin McAsh, Kristin LeMoine, Marian Brown, Michael Sirois, Moira Fogarty, Nocturna, Patrick, Peter Eastman, Susan Denney, Tora, Zale Schafer (Rose May Chamberlin Memorial Foundat.

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