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| Title | : | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Author | : | Charles Dickens |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics (UK/CAN/USA) |
| Pages | : | Pages: 489 pages |
| Published | : | 2003 by Penguin Books (first published 1859) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Science Fiction. Time Travel |
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.Itemize Books Concering A Tale of Two Cities
| ISBN: | 0141439602 (ISBN13: 9780141439600) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780141439600 |
| Characters: | Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, Madame Therese Defarge, Dr. Alexandre Manette |
| Setting: | Paris,1789(France) London, England,1789 |
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Ratings: 3.84 From 778155 Users | 16378 ReviewsColumn Epithetical Books A Tale of Two Cities
One of the greatest novels ever written. I've never seen a ranking that didn't include this novel. If you have ever wondered what it was like to live through the French Revolution, then read this novel. Through Dickens' words you feel the anger, the hopelessness, the insecurity, and most of all the fear that enveloped everyone. It was a pleasure and a privilege to read this masterpiece.A Tale of Two Cities was the first Charles Dickens novel I read on my own, not because an English class required it (looking at you, Great Expectations). I was going on a cross-country trip and decided this would be a good book to while away the hours. From the first immortal words: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 ... to the very last ones, it was an absorbing story
"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."It leaves me wondering: are there ever any other times? Isn't each era full of everything that is best and worst, full of hope and despair, of improvement and destruction?What makes me feel hope? Reading Dickens!
This was a re-read of an old favourite for me. It's been about 25 years, though, so long overdue. I'm not even going to try to review this masterpiece but let me just say one thing:'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'Arguably the best opening line of any book ever written... but wait!'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known...'Definitely the best closing lines of any novel ever written
A Tale of Two Cities holds the dubious honor of being the first book I ever picked up and failed to finish. The very first.From there, it's all gone downhill. Just look at my reviews where I casually admit to throwing away classics unread. A Light in August, Lolita, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, etc, etc...If you enjoy the little things, like being sane and not hating life, then I recommend you never pick this up.
I first read this in high school as a substitute for "Oliver Twist" which was not in my high school library catalog. Come to think of it now, I have never read that book. Weird... If ever I get a chance to meet "high-school-me", I bet she will be over the moon and back to know that the world is her library! Any book, on demand! I guess it would distract her enough not to realize she has no social life. Anyway..."A Tale of Two Cities" is, once again, one of those books I have read when I was too
"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!" It has been quite some time since I
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