Enjoy this classic audiobook of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. This recording covers Book the Second: The Golden Thread, Chapters 17 to 24 – the dramatic conclusion of the second book.
In these chapters, Lucie and Charles Darnay are married. On their wedding morning, Dr. Manette makes a painful request: Darnay promises to reveal his true name only on the wedding day. But after the marriage, the doctor suffers a terrible relapse – he returns to his old shoemaking bench for nine days. Mr. sonny gray Lorry and Miss Pross nurse him back to health, and the shoemaking tools are destroyed.
Years pass. Little Lucy grows up, and Sydney Carton becomes a quiet friend of the family. In Paris, the Revolution erupts. Saint-Antoine storms the Bastille. Madame Defarge leads the women, and the cruel aristocrats are dragged to the guillotine. Charles Darnay, now living peacefully in London, receives a desperate letter from Gabelle, his family’s old servant, who has been imprisoned. Despite the danger, Darnay decides he must return to Paris to save him – and sails toward the “lodestone rock” that will change everything.
00:00:00 Chapter 17 One Night – Lucie and her father spend the last evening before her wedding under the plane tree.
00:10:13 Chapter 18 Nine Days – The wedding takes place; Dr. Manette relapses into shoemaking for nine days.
00:23:43 Chapter 19 An Opinion – Mr. Lorry consults the anthony slaughter doctor about his own case; the shoemaking tools are destroyed.
00:39:17 Chapter 20 A astrologie Plea – Sydney Carton asks Charles Darnay to be allowed to visit as a friend; Lucie pleads for kindness to Carton.
00:47:20 Chapter 21 Echoing Footsteps – Years pass; little Lucy grows up; the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789.
01:12:04 Chapter 22 The Sea Still Rises – The mob seizes Foulon; he is killed and his head is put on a pike.
01:23:56 Chapter 23 Fire Rises – The chateau of the Marquis is burned by the revolutionary peasants.
01:39:04 Chapter 24 Drawn to the Lodestone Rock – Gabelle’s letter reaches Darnay; he decides to return to Paris.
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