A Tale of Two Cities: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Tale of Two Cities, credited to Charles Dickens, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. Read by Paul Adams. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it is among the most famous works of fiction. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated British barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Tale of Two Cities
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 15:29:14

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• historical fiction
• charles dickens

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 01 - Bk1 Ch01 - The Period — 7:29
2. 02 - Bk1 Ch02 - The Mail — 13:03
3. 03 - Bk1 Ch03 - The Night Shadows — 11:19
4. 04 - Bk1 Ch04 - The Preparation — 28:57
5. 05 - Bk1 Ch05 - The Wine Shop — 28:18
6. 06 - Bk1 Ch06 - The Shoemaker — 27:45
7. 07 - Bk2 Ch01 - Five Years Later — 16:45
8. 08 - Bk2 Ch02 - A Sight — 15:53
9. 09 - Bk2 Ch03 - A Disappointment — 31:47
10. 10 - Bk2 Ch04 - Congratulatory — 14:54
11. 11 - Bk2 Ch05 - The Jackal — 14:27
12. 12 - Bk2 Ch06 - Hundreds of People — 30:19
13. 13 - Bk2 Ch07 - Monseigneur in Town — 23:18
14. 14 - Bk2 Ch08 - Monseigneur in the Country — 13:05
15. 15 - Bk2 Ch09 - The Gorgon's Head — 28:13
16. 16 - Bk2 Ch10 - Two Promises — 19:22
17. 17 - Bk2 Ch11 - A Companion Picture — 9:05
18. 18 - Bk2 Ch12 - The Fellow of Delicacy — 16:35
19. 19 - Bk2 Ch13 - The Fellow of no Delicacy — 11:48
20. 20 - Bk2 Ch14 - The Honest Tradesman — 25:24
21. 21 - Bk2 Ch15 - Knitting — 28:13
22. 22 - Bk2 Ch16 - Still Knitting — 27:18
23. 23 - Bk2 Ch17 - One Night — 12:42
24. 24 - Bk2 Ch18 - Nine Days — 16:21

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