A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens, Simon Callow, Audible Studios

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ABC/Audible Audio
01 July 2020

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Audiobooks - Fiction

Series: The Dickens Collection

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'

So begins Charles Dickens' most famous historical drama: a gripping tale of war, social injustice and the choice between darkness and light. After being unjustly imprisoned for 18 years, French doctor Manette is released from the Bastille jail in Paris and embarks upon a journey to London in the hope of finding the daughter he never met. Young Lucie Manette is a pretty and dutiful girl who soon attracts the attention of two very different gentlemen. Now reunited with the father she believed to be dead, happiness appears to be within reach. But as they are all drawn back to the bloodstained streets of Paris, misery and the threat of La Guillotine loom once again.

In Callow's introduction, we discover how Dickens' own volatile personal circumstances of the time are mirrored in A Tale of Two Cities. He tells of Dickens' personal feuds and explains why this novel sees Dickens at his most theatrical

By: Charles Dickens
Producer: Audible Studios
Read by: Simon Callow
Imprint: ABC/Audible Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9780655676690
ISBN 10: 0655676694
Series: The Dickens Collection
Publication Date: 01 July 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Audio disk
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. Simon Callow is a British actor with a firmly-established reputation for impeccable performance on-stage, on-screen and on audiobook. Perhaps best known for his role in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Callow's reputation in the theatre is also second-to-none.