Tale of Two Cities ~ favorite quotes...

Book 1. Chapter 3. The Night Shadows


A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this.

I've seen a couple of movie versions of the book -- none do justice to the dream-like, sepulchral  opening. And the foreshadowing of the secret of the buried, forgotten man: "one-hundred five - north tower".

A Tale of Two Cities

This is a self-extracting file containing the text-to-speech book created from the Project Gutenberg text of 'A Tale of Two Cities'

To use:

1) Download the self extracting file
2) Run to extract to "Dickens,Charles"
3) Browse to "A_Tale_of_Two_Cities"
4) Open "98_pg_etext.hta"
5) Select a chapter and 'Play' or 'Stop'

SAMPLE AUDIO:
http://sites.google.com/site/charlesjohnhuffmandickens/home/a/98~01-samp.mp3 

SAMPLE SCREEN SHOTS:

Great Expectations

This is a self-extracting file containing a text-to-speech book created from the Project Gutenberg text of 'Great Expectations'.

To Use:
 
1) Download the self extracting file
2) Run to extract to "Dickens,Charles"
3) Browse to "Great_Expectations"
4) Open "1400_pg_etext.hta"
5) Select a chapter and 'Play' or 'Stop' 

SAMPLE AUDIO:
http://sites.google.com/site/charlesjohnhuffmandickens/home/great_expectations/1400~01-samp.mp3



SAMPLE SCREEN SHOTS: