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Utopia (MP3 format, CD)
Thomas More, Sir Thomas More; Read by Simon Prebble
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Discovery Miles 7 510
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''It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.'' It was the
French Revolution. Unjustly imprisoned for years in the Bastille,
Dr. Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely
transported from France to England where they hope to return to
their quiet lives. However, they are summoned to the Old Bailey in
the trial of Charles Darnay, a young Frenchman falsely accused of
treason. Strangely enough, Darnay bears an uncanny resemblance to
another man in the courtroom: Sydney Carton, a dissolute barrister.
It is a coincidence that saves Darnay from certain doom more than
once. The storming of the Bastille, the death carts with their
doomed human cargo, and Madame Defarge, who knits beside the
guillotine, are portrayed with drama, romance, and heroics that
culminate in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the
guillotine. A sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris with
a complex plot portraying the results of terror and treason, love
and supreme sacrifice.
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