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'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.

Best known for its opening line - "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" - Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal events of the French Revolution. Dickens, in his anti-political tone, lambastes both aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess. In A Tale of Two Cities he presents a moving account of sacrifice and redemption.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Paterson Joseph, known for his roles in the forthcoming BBC adaption of Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses, Peep Show, and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Richard Pevear. Young...

“A classic story . . . delivers real news from Cuba in a lyrical way.”–NPR Available for a new generation, Wendy Guerra’s intoxicating and heartrending classic—a portrait of economically depressed post-revolutionary Cuba in the late 1970s, written as the diary of a young girl left...

Ben Hecht (1894-1964) war einer der berühmtesten Drehbuchautoren in Hollywood. Er schrieb für Billy Wilder, Hitchcock und Howard Hawks und viele andere. 1918 aber war er ein junger, mit allen Wassern gewaschener Journalist aus Chicago, der im Berliner Hotel Adlon abstieg, um aus einem unbekannten Land zu berichten, das gerade den Ersten Weltkrieg verloren hatte. Als er es wieder verließ, hatte er die Revolution in Berlin und Bayern und ein ganzes Land am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs erlebt, denkwürdige Interviews geführt und Freunde gewonnen. Deutschland erscheint in diesen wahren Geschichten wie der unwirkliche Schauplatz einer im Zeitraffer gedrehten Tragikomödie.

"Ein Kapitel Revolution" ist eine Erzählung von Joseph Roth. Der Zug brauchte mehr als achtzehn Stunden, um die kurze Strecke zwischen Kursk und Woronesch zurückzulegen. Es war ein kalter und klarer Wintertag. Ein paar karge Stunden schien die Sonne so kräftig von einem dunkelblauen, fast südlichen Himmel, daß die Männer an jeder der häufigen Haltestellen aus den kalten und finstern Waggons hinaussprangen, die Röcke ablegten wie bei einer schweren Arbeit im heißen Sommer, sich mit dem knirschenden Schnee wuschen und von der Luft und der Sonne trocknen ließen.

Die Meuterer der "Bounty" gründeten einst auf einer entlegenen Insel - Pitcairn - ihren eigenen Nationalstaat. Ihre Nachfahren werden durch die Ankunft eines Amerikaners und dessen intriganten Missbrauch von patriotischen und religiösen Elementen dazu angestachelt, professionelle Nationalstaatsstrukturen zu etablieren. Schließlich steht die Ehre und der Stolz einer ganzen Nation auf dem Spiel und innerhalb kürzester Zeit wird durch das gezielte Appellieren an die niederen menschlichen Instinkte aus einer friedlichen Gemeinschaft ein unberechenbarer Mob, der im Namen von Freiheit, Gott und Vaterland die Insel zu verwüsten beginnt.

Lucie Manette, long believing herself to be an orphan, meets with London banker Jarvis Lorry in the Royal George Hotel in Dover and finds out her father, Dr. Alexandre Manette, is alive and has been held for the last 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille. The three are reunited in an attic garret in Paris, close to the wine shop run by Ernest Defarge, the doctor's former servant, and his wife, Thérèse.

A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Dickens' best-known work of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities is regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time.

Charles Dickens takes us to the year 1775, where England and France are undergoing a period of social upheaval and turmoil. The forces that are leading to revolution in France are colliding with a circle of people in England, causing their destinies to be irrevocably intertwined. A Tale of Two Cities has helped to shape our understanding of one of the most pivotal events in modern history: the French Revolution and the birth of the new French Republic.

Benjamin Disraeli’s powerful, polemical story of love across the class divide Chosen by The Guardian as one of the best 100 novels of all time, Disraeli’s classic 1845 ‘condition-of-England’ novel exposes the inequality and exploitation endemic in 19th century Britain, and the vast gulf...

After thirty-five years, the Three Musketeers - Athos, Aramis, and Porthos - join forces again. This time, it’s to rid France of corrupt King Louis XIV. True to their ingenuity, they plan to replace him with the mysterious prisoner in the barbaric iron mask now languishing in the Bastille. But their old comrade D’Artagnan, still in loyal service to the court, stands in their way. As the daring coup unfolds, literature’s legendary brotherhood is put to the test.

Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which...

"It was the best of times and the worst of times." In one of the most famous openings of any novel, Dickens masterfully presents the turmoil of the French Revolution, which is the backdrop for a novel of love, patience, hope, and self-sacrifice. This version is read by Anton Lesser, whose award-winning Dickens recordings in their abridged form has now resulted in the opportunity to read the full unabridged text.

This short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by her ailing father, Sissy is taken into the cold household of the Gradgrind family, which operates a school. The "eminently practical" Thomas Gradgrind believes only in facts and figures and has raised his children accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative side of their nature, and the consequences are devastating.

It may seem odd that Mark Twain delivered a 4th of July speech in London in 1907. Aside from poking fun at the American obsession with fireworks and drunken revelry, however, the brilliant Twain knew just how to tie the topic of American independence with his British audience. He recounts how the Revolutionary War was fought between Brits over a Declaration of Independence written by Brits before the United States officially formed as a nation.

The two most treasured documents of American freedom together on one audiobook. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal… Drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 as an act of rebellion, The Declaration of Independence powerfully expresses the political principles of...