Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text. LibriVox recording of A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. Book contributor: University of California Libraries. Publisher: Boston, New York Ginn & company. Book Contributor: New York Public Library.Īuthor: Charles Dickens, 1812-1870 James Weber Linn, 1876-1939. Publisher: London : Dent New York : Dutton. Plain Text.Īuthor: Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. Directed by Jack Conway, the film starred Ronald Colman as Sydney Carton, Donald Woods as Charles Darnay, and Elizabeth Allan as Lucie Manette.Ī Collection of eBooks and Audiobooks of the book - The French Revolution: A History, written by Thomas Carlyle. This is a 1935 film based upon Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities. Who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife.Ī Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. Darnay isĪ former French aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated English barrister The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutalityĭemonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in Londonĭuring the same time period. It ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

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