Opening paragraph to Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities".

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Text: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (opening excerpt).

Image: Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People.

Voice: Alejandro Thacker

Mixing: Alejandro Thacker

All the following sound samples were obtained through the Freesound Project ( http://www.freesound.org/ ).

Sample names and users are the following:

Triangle, 4'', Hard Hit, A.wav
InspectorJ

01319 baby girl cries 7.wav
Robinhood76

writing - pen 01.wav
Anthousai

Horse carriage on city street.wav
Owl

campfire.wav
aerror

wind interior howling soft.wav
luiiiiiiii

110814-oure in the morning.wav
miastodzwiekow

ChurchBellKonstanz.wav
edsward

Landsknechtsmarsch_16bit.wav
Andune

Crowd Shouting.wav
DickBlox

Digging with pick axe.wav
cameronmusic

SpadeCoal.wav
Hotlavaman

Salute_Cannons.MP3
nofeedbak