A Tale of Two Cities

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens: Set between London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities follows Lucie Manette, whose father, Dr. Alexandre Manette, is restored to her after eighteen years of imprisonment in the Bastille. Their lives become intertwined with Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who has rejected his family’s cruel legacy, and Sydney Carton, a brilliant but disillusioned English lawyer who secretly loves Lucie. When revolutionary violence engulfs France, Darnay returns to Paris and is imprisoned and condemned because of his aristocratic ancestry. In the novel’s climactic act of redemption, Carton uses his remarkable resemblance to Darnay to exchange places with him, sacrificing his own life so that Lucie and her family can escape. Dickens combines romance, political upheaval, revenge, resurrection, and self-sacrifice in one of literature’s most famous stories of personal redemption.