Author:
Narrator: Richard Pasco
Format: Unabridged-CD, Abridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3, Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Pub Group West
Published: May 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $37.95
Discs: 12
Dickens’s only serious, uncomic novel, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, is set during the French Revolution and tells a story of unselfish devotion. The beautiful Lucy Manette marries Charles Darnay, the descendant of an aristocratic French family denounced by the revolutionaries, among whom are the memorably evil fanatic Mme. Defarge. When Darnay is arrested and condemned to death, his place is taken at the guillotine by Sidney Carton, who loves Lucy himself and is willing to die to secure her happiness (and who happens to resemble Darnay). His last words--