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A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

539 episodes · full original text

A doctor freed after 18 years in the Bastille, a French aristocrat in hiding, and a drunk English lawyer who loves the same woman. All roads lead to Paris and the Terror.

Every word as the author wrote it, split into 1-minute episodes.

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The Period

1 2 3 4

The Mail

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Night Shadows

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

The Preparation

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

The Wine-shop

38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52

The Shoemaker

53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67

Five Years Later

68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77

A Sight

78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88

A Disappointment

89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107

Congratulatory

108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117

The Jackal

118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125

Hundreds of People

126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143

Monseigneur in Town

144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156

Monseigneur in the Country

157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164

The Gorgon’s Head

165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180

Two Promises

181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192

A Companion Picture

193 194 195 196 197 198

The Fellow of Delicacy

199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208

The Fellow of No Delicacy

209 210 211 212 213 214 215

The Honest Tradesman

216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230

Knitting

231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246

Still Knitting

247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261

One Night

262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269

Nine Days

270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278

An Opinion

279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289

A Plea

290 291 292 293 294

Echoing Footsteps

295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310

The Sea Still Rises

311 312 313 314 315 316 317

Fire Rises

318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327

Drawn to the Loadstone Rock

328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343

In Secret

344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360

The Grindstone

361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370

The Shadow

371 372 373 374 375 376 377

Calm in Storm

378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386

The Wood-Sawyer

387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395

Triumph

396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406

A Knock at the Door

407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414

A Hand at Cards

415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433

The Game Made

434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451

The Substance of the Shadow

452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473

Dusk

474 475 476 477 478 479

Darkness

480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492

Fifty-two

493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510

The Knitting Done

511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529

The Footsteps Die Out For Ever

530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539