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A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles · ~708 min total
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About A Tale of Two Cities
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Dickens’s only purely historical novel — a tale of resurrection, sacrifice, and Revolution set between London and Paris.
Why it works as an audiobook
Dickens wrote for serialized public reading — his sentences cadence aloud the way poetry does. The famous final lines hit even harder when narrated.
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Themes: historical fiction, French Revolution, sacrifice, classic literature
- Approximate length: 14 hours
- Source: Project Gutenberg #98 (public domain)
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A Tale of Two Cities was written by Charles Dickens. It was first published in 1859.
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