A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - FULL AudioBook 🎧📖 | Greatest🌟AudioBooks (B1 of 3) V2

A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens - FULL AudioBook 🎧📖 | Greatest🌟AudioBooks (Book 1 of 3) - V2
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens (1812-1870), 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 adapted from Wikipedia .org)
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This is Book 1 of 3 of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter listing and length:
01 - Bk1 Ch01 - The Period -- 00:07:29
02 - Bk1 Ch02 - The Mail -- 00:13:02
03 - Bk1 Ch03 - The Night Shadows -- 00:11:19
04 - Bk1 Ch04 - The Preparation -- 00:28:56
05 - Bk1 Ch05 - The Wine Shop -- 00:28:18
06 - Bk1 Ch06 - The Shoemaker -- 00:27:45
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Read by Paul Adams
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[@jhebb4]

Chapter one starts at 00:00:21 ends at 00:07:29 Chapter two starts at 00:07:29 ends at 00:20:31 Chapter three starts at 00:20:31 ends at 00:31:50 Chapter four starts at 00:31:50 ends at 01:00:46 Chapter five starts at 01:00:46 ends at 01:29:04 Chapter six starts at 01:29:04 ends at 01:56:49

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[@cedarmint7308]

Never trust a book with 119 words in its first sentence.

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[@kcbrown6219]

His voice is very soothing! I nearly forgotten how much I hate this book.

[@suzyswain402]

I'm at 38.22 and I have no idea what is going on so I'm starting again

[@hnjtz]

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[@chevon1920]

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[@charlotte_872]

I've fallen asleep at least five times

[@whit2642]

Suzy Says Charles Dickens is hard to appreciate as a high schooler which I’m assuming you guys are as I was also required and much dismayed at reading him and Shakespeare etc at a young age. Well. Shit I’m not old but I’m in my 30s now married with kids and love classic literature. It takes A LOT of knowledge and desire to research of periods long past and societies then. I suggest reading it along in text with the audio. He is a superior author who wrote stories with many many undertones, concurring roles and areas of people and moves very fast with the amount of information in a single few paragraphs. He is no easy read for the most part in longer works. Get the cliffs notes. You’ll be fine. Or print and follow along while listening so you can highlight any thing “profound” worthy.

[@josh_joseph_159]

Rip

[@gamingspacemonkey]

I needed this for English class. (dont judge.)

[@trevorbaxter1500]

same lol

[@markganus1085]

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[@gamingspacemonkey]

Mark Ganus it is in fact a moustache. if you look at his feet i also painted in a wii-mote. (i didn't draw ditty only the two things mentioned)

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[@BeanandBros]

Same

[@pyromania1018]

I remember being assigned to read this in my Freshman year in high school. I was excited because I'd been studying the French Revolution since 6th Grade. But I was so bored. The writing felt so dry. My mother rented the audiobook for me, but I fell asleep, and playing it in the car was risky because both my parents had a hard time staying awake as well. I think the only chapters I could comprehend were the last two. Anyway, my classmates fared little better, and we all failed the exam. The teacher gave us all a 15-point bonus out of pity, and no future classes were ever required to read this book - instead, they had to read "Great Expectation", which was also pretty boring, according to my sister, which means something because she loves reading as much as I do. The actual story of this book is very interesting, as is the message, but it's just so hard to sift through the complicated diction. My dad hypothesized that Dickens was paid by the word or paragraph or something, which is why it was so wordy.

[@elizabethc18]

Yeah, that's how a lot of English novels from Dicken's day were written. You'll find that most of them are pretty wordy, but the more you read them, the clearer they become. The first time I tried reading Jane Eyre, it was so hard and I thought I would never get through it. Looking back now, I laugh at myself because it really wasn't hard to read at all.

[@master0fdisguise598]

I'm in freshman year of high school and I have to read it. Theres no exam on it for me theres we just have to make a 3 page book report on it.

[@lisagu101]

Elizabeth Claire Jane eyre is actually okay, the tale of cities is way too hard for me to comprehend 😩

[@pokemonlover1016]

im in seventh grade and my language arts teacher made me read Jane Eyre (which i finished a few weeks ago) and now she recommended that i read this. I only searched this up because this book was a bit hard for me to understand, and i personally think that this audiobook is helping me.

[@teacher5628]

I am a high school English teacher. I use this book to teach about every literary device known to man to my 9th graders ever year. I'm sorry your teacher didn't know how to teach it. My students, most of them anyway, love it and become very involved in the characters. I agree that, although this this reader is technically good and he has a lovely accent, he is just reading with expression. He doesn't know how to make Dickens come to life. This would put me to sleep, also.

[@aishatwilley753]

Im not even a minute into it and I can't stop laughing because of how passionate he says it.

[@cedarmint7308]

To those of you who's heads this is blowing over, I suggest you turn on captions and set speed to 1.25! That helped me a lot :)

[@frenchyyt7881]

0ld school I’m at 2x speed

[@sihemel-hadi8522]

Thank you 😊

[@andrewkilgore912]

damn this mixtape fire

[@MilkyMcNipple]

never laughed so hard, 8/8

[@pattymcgranahan]

exactly

[@buttercookies9924]

Lol

[@rinixtle9161]

I'm not even finished with the first chapter and I'm already playing a game and listening to this in the background to cure my boredom

[@billhopen]

I really really enjoy the voice, dialects, and reading skill of the reader...it added immeasurably to the beautiful writing of Dickens' work, I truely enjoyed the language read by a" native", (not an American) Bravo!

[@marzipanmylove]

the person who read this did an incredible job!! i found myself laughing at different parts and over all i understood the first book better just because of the emotion and character that he puts into his reading! it's a hard but interesting read and the symbolism and writing is just beautiful and i definitely recommend this book to everyone who is up for the challenge!

[@bobbyzz3419]

love the narrator would be painful without him

[@dman4249]

Hated when I had to read this as a high school student. Enjoying it now that I have more perspective

[@abbie2688]

This guys voice is great.

[@glaceon4748]

Its really fast to me because I am listening to it on x2 because I need to read the whole book tomorrow. lol :D

[@nat-im5iz]

I DO THIS ALL THE TIME

[@notsteve1475]

I can’t stand the voice

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[@GeppettoProductions]

Give me a book like this, over a movie, any day.

[@chrismuga]

I cannot understand why people are unlike get this.But this is an awesome read, and the narrator is spot on...

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

I was pleasantly surprised after trying two other Librivox recordings of this book that this narrator *doesn't* have a dry, grating, angry old-man voice that makes me want to rip out all the hair on my body with my bare hands. And *then* he started off being all dramatic and excited, as if novels were supposed to be radio dramas. Then he calmed down again, whew... I'll keep listening...

[@tomrichards4307]

I read this -- not as an assignment -- but because I was fascinated by Dickens' stories and could not put them down. This is definitely 19th century style writing. This is hard for most high school students perhaps, but this book is a phenomenal achievement and you learn a lot about the French revolution. It makes you want to learn more, of course. In his other books, Dickens' characters are so well described that they are alive -- strange, weird, and unique in the middle of their 1850-ish life (again you learn a lot about what life was like back then from these accounts).

[@barbarabaker1457]

Nice to see a positive review of this.

[@angelstar3494]

I had to read this in middle school 😭

[@sambendon]

I'm listening to this for English, please help me I can't concentrate to it

[@maddie5540]

SCHOOL STARTS IN 4 DAYS AND I HAVENT STARTED THIS BOOK FOR SUMMER READING, IM TRYING TO READ IT BUT THE WORDS DONT PROCESS IN MY BRAIN. H E L P ME

[@_Tennz]

I do appreciate this FREE recording of this wonderful story however, I am trying my hardest to forgive the fact that all the dialogue is read with a shouting voice as if the characters are yards away from each other! During the ascent up the stairs to meet Ms. Manette's father, Mr. Lorry and Mr. Defarge are whispering so low to one another to keep Ms. Manette from hearing but you'd think they were yelling the way this sweet man read this book.

[@StackGuy]

I have a quiz over book the first today and I hadn't read any of it about 3 hours before I had to take it. This was a lifesaver (Doesn't hurt having a couple of off periods either)

[@quinbloom439]

I absolutely love this book and Charles dickens

[@DawlSheepProds]

guys don't waste your time and set this to x2 speed... i learned this late into the video

[@HORSESNDOGS9]

Thanks bro

[@alexiskinsey6116]

How do you do that

[@soupdrinkerc]

But it’s hard as hell to comprehend

[@jessikaobrien9593]

I love you, Librivox. You got me through my Victorian Literature class this semester

[@lenoraeverett9200]

I loved book one and found it thoroughly interesting! I agree that the reader does a great job!

[@danielnewhouse5044]

If you watch the movie the most important part is to say "That thing is the end of all hope" when you see the guillotine. What I noticed is the graphic version of the movie is that the heads disappear in the basket as people are guillotined. I saw one head look at its body and quake with fear because the light coming out had nowhere to go. Julie Ann Walner said since I denied that Kelly McMahon is the love of my life when I was born that I will someday die by guillotine. What happens to a disembarkated soul? It's something like what happens to Tetsuo in Akira. Also, the beheading of Brer rabbit in Song of the South. The light that comes out of the body is called the quickening. Highlander movies. The idea is that if a soul finds its lost head it can rest in peace. Ever heard of the Headless Horseman? The Parisians made some use of Satanic shrines. I think they used these so they didn't have a lot of headless horsemen walking around, and rather than let them rest in peace they forced the severed heads to swear fealty to Satan. This caused the heads to scream and then they put them in a dumpster. Then Jesus takes them and puts them in a catacomb underneath the city of Paris.

[@wernerbrandes389]

Excellent narration

[@hannahmcmillin395]

I've tried reading this book 4x and I've made it a goal to conquer this book . this kind of feels like cheating though 😂😭😢

[@MrRichofheart]

remember both reading and listening are receptive skills so no cheating is possible and you've climbed your mountain, congrats

[@andrewpederson6989]

This is terrific. Thank you!

[@va4567891]

This book was in Sceondary school leaving curiculam for Gujarati High school at G.T.High School, Kalabadevi Road, Bomabay 1967 at that time. We got the feeling of how in prison her father whole time stiching, the same thing after coming out of prison, and other charachter told "I don't care for the world and world don't care for me. devoted himself. France political in kingdom collapses. Grat work author Charles Dickens and titles"

[@AfridiZindabad]

Amazing recording, great job by this man.

[@avagonzalez3237]

everyone: sparknotes has a modern day translation which makes it a million times easier

[@blackbloodyprince8262]

I love how Dickens write..but I don't really get the story. (May because it's not my mother tounge, or because the story is a bit confusing itself. xD )

[@valdevitch1999]

I have an assignment on an essay due to tomorrow, thank god audio books exist, because I’m scared of my English teacher.

[@vuyotervin6292]

Best book-reader

[@AlysseSailor]

Best librivox reader everrrr🌻🌼🌸🌷🌺

[@gracey.1573]

it was the winter of *despairrrr*

[@1iuh]

Thank you for subtitles.

[@jumaanalqahtani5945]

Great tale and great voice.

[@aaron8kok]

I find reading Dickens's is more engaging. Its hard for me to imagine the characters if it's just read out to me.

[@torterraplays]

this is helping me sooooooo much with reading this book for school!

[@jessicasparkle]

I love your voice and accent!!! It’s so perfect!!!!!!

[@thomasberkley3941]

uuuggghhhh i have to do this for English class

[@souloftheage]

dark temptation LUCKY YOU!. I love Dickens. I have read all his books and this is my favorite. No one describes characters better than Dickens. The "run on" sentences, by present standards are difficult to get used to. But once the reader does the reward is immense.

[@thomasberkley3941]

hey who broke the dad out of jail

[@elainagilbert7663]

I tried reading this book in high school but was frustrated by the run-on sentence that consisted of the first paragraph. I tried this time thinking it might not have been as torturous as I remember and I was wrong.

[@TedGJumbo]

Excellent narration of a great novel.

[@ronmac9522]

I am not going to sit through a book who's Author cant make up his mind in the first line.

[@pattymcgranahan]

+Ron Mac95: Right. Like WTF

[@TheVeek192]

Okay. Thanks for sharing that profound piece of information, from you who capitalizes for no reason and doesn't know the difference between whose and who's. Good job.

[@visualgagging]

Because _everybody_ knows that _nobody_ is allowed to express an opinion if they make one or two grammar mistakes!

[@josh_joseph_159]

It’s an expression that means people were saying what they do for any time. Like today, some people say we’re at our peak right now and others say we are all going to get killed tomorrow. Dickens was pretty much saying it was a fairly normal time, and then described the time (the Kings and queens) to give you a certain date. Then the next paragraph he gave the exact year.

[@josh_joseph_159]

This saved me 5 hours of my weekend

[@jaquiportillo1153]

if I don't read a book with one hundred thousand word I will get a F. your a life saver dude

[@MrTrenttness]

The narrator loves this book :)

[@tonipalie3606]

this is awesome ❤

[@mattstump3392]

Thank you so much lifesaver

[@jesusmoreno5550]

What a life save. needed for English class yass

[@AwesomeRobot15]

Yeah same

[@guitarmike1125]

An excellent narration Paul

[@nh6162]

Thank you ❤

[@viraticwars]

Does anyone feel a sense of melancholy while listening to this?

[@Rainbowthewindsage]

This guy's voice is awesome. Just wanted to say that.

[@TheDevamack]

Lady trying to pass a door

[@TheDevamack]

Old lady

[@jessavila]

Listened to this instead of reading the actual book.. 😂

[@nguyenviet3177]

I’ve read the summary of the book on Wikipedia so I can listen the last 57 minutes,before that I have no idea

[@anandvarunachari5938]

This is great

[@sk-kh9369]

I like the voice with emotion

[@rbagala]

Well done

[@minegamer4891]

Who is watching in 2024

[@timmytimbits5880]

Am I the only who needs this for school?

[@deniserobbins8038]

Some of us just love this book and revisit as one might an old friend. It is complex and satisfying.

[@narayanidahal6089]

This help me so much for my exam

[@gda295]

can't listen to historical novels, want to look all references up

[@gorillafighter4037]

+gda295 same

[@carolinearellano4835]

gda295 true

[@whit2642]

I know. And I do!!! 😩 but so much is learned and then when you listen or read other stories and novels from the same time period by others in the same and separate parts of the world you find comparing contrasting and shared overall views of both societies of the world as well as the authors. I LOVE it and believe that classics are important and necessary.

[@minniejilly6406]

I chose this book to read over summer for world history (H) and I’m regretting everything,,

[@avagonzalez3237]

i didn't even have a choice lmao

[@robbanisports]

it's a nice story

[@kalamari1611]

If anyone is using this, put it to 1.5x or 1.25x

[@kartikpundir1504]

good i like it

[@ronaldronca7547]

times listed are not set to chapters but the length of corresponding chapter, as stated...why so many confused listeners

[@kiba09]

These comments woke me up. :)

[@timepassking6964]

its nice

[@PPepper]

I have this thing.. In my school.. Lol I have to study it..

[@user-mh5mo3fs2x]

I liked

[@emilyyurk7231]

Bookmark 1:27:15

[@heosomeheosome6752]

I stopped when he said dirty munks in the street. Good night!

[@dareisnogod5711]

OVERDONE, BUT BETTER THAN MOST OF THE OTHER VOICES WHICH ARE QUITE TEDIOUS.

[@mickeyray5196]

Damned if it isn't Alfred Hitchcock reading this book!

[@insearchof9903]

BOOOOOORRRRRRIIIIINNNGGGGG

[@judy9363]

LoverofGOD Always IFKR

[@melissaszafir6381]

Fuck you

[@keishikamaru]

do you guys have any link to download this? Can you share it to me?

[@andrewjmes]

Bookmark 1:03:00

[@Enceladus335]

no offence but didn't understand what the fuck he's trying to tell 😂

[@marcelomacedo8484]

I'm with you Bro..lol, I don't know if it is because of the accent or the over interpretation,...either way, it would probably be better start to read the book ..lol.

[@Alonsoiidx]

Same. I'm using the cliffnotes book in conjunction with this and it helps.

[@marcelomacedo8484]

Lol, Funny, I did exacly the same thing, but with a different audio, because this one looks like a theather show! good for you, and try to go until the end of it, definately worth it!

[@susanweston9510]

SRSLY maybe know is the time to go to school it's never too late and then you wouldn't have to resort to expletives to make your point.

[@Enceladus335]

Susan Weston thank you I'll definitely take your suggestion in consideration

[@aidanbowles8884]

Your a damn life saver

[@danielnewhouse5044]

I remember the trials were trying to investigate some kind of conspiracy. The problem is they executed the one man who realized what happened.

[@mercyjohnson1966]

31:50 bookmark 📚

[@diego_wagner]

Damn this doesn't come with pictures. I don't know whats going on

[@sariblankie]

bookmark 1:11:55 page 40 2nd paragraph

[@JS-wg4px]

A Birmingham accent was not what I expected. Sounds like Martin Shaw, though it says Paul Adams.

[@arsonhycan]

pls let this be the abridged ver. 🙏

[@bmarti2083]

Who is here for J. Cole?

[@YY-ml8lm]

wEeP fOr iT

[@YY-ml8lm]

You know, for business purposes

[@brewilson8696]

i don’t understand anything that is going on

[@elizabethmatz4356]

I started this and I abandoned it. I think the way he reads it makes it very hard to listen and follow or at least to grasp each sentence as he's reading it. I found it very annoying. So I went back online to Google and found a different audio version read by a woman without a British accent read it in a way that made it much much easier to comprehend and follow as I was listening. I have to go look for that link and then I'll share it here

[@cassidyclark9395]

Bookmark at end of chapter one. 7:18

[@gabbydiomand1223]

I don't have the book...this dude spits alot XD

[@gametoo2420]

Only in the beginning is a better opening line.

[@darksaiyanknight4175]

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