A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Published: 1854
Genres: Adult Fiction, Classic
Format: Hardcover (544 pages)
Source: Purchased
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.
One of the hardest books to get into that I have ever read, but the ending gave me chills and I couldn’t stop thinking about if for days. If you are stuck at the beginning and wondering if it will be worth it, I promise it is.
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