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A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Julian Rhind-Tutt, star of Green Wing, also known for his roles in The Madness of King George and Tomb Raider. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Richard Maxwell.

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

©1859 Charles Dickens (P)2019 Penguin Audio Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction England

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Julian Rhind- Tutt is a fantastic narrator and there were times when I thought other actors had begun to read the novel.

An enjoyable listen to a classic novel.

A Tale of Two Cities

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Loved it as a child, cried at the film version as a young woman, marvelled at the complexity of the writing in middle age, and now a septuagenarian, love it again! So vivid, so raw, what brutality, compassion, degradation and love, it’s marvellous, but then Dickens is and remains powerfully extraordinary.

Beautifully read classic Dickens.

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An excellent final act tacked onto a long drawn out book that spends more time setting up the characters than having them do anything interesting.

One excellent act and two superfluous ones

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Julian Rhind-Tutt is a five star reader. So many voices available but this version was a good choice.

Fantastic reading

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Julian Rhind-Tutt reads this classic, bringing it to life! Unmissable. Worth every penny! Buy-it!

Exceptional!

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