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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)

by Charles Dickens

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Penguin Classics (2003), Paperback, 544 pages

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This story is very interesting. It came to a dramatic ending.
I know the French Revolution in 1789.But I don't know people who lived in 1789.Of course,this story is fiction.But I was moved by each life of the people in this story.I think nobody was wrong.
I recommend you to read this book! ( )
  akarih | Jan 4, 2010 |
This story is not a true story,but is grounded on the French Revolution.
I like western history,so it was very interesting.
The last is quite unexpected result.
I recommend you to try this book!
And one problem,there are many characters.At first,it was difficult to remember their names and the relationships:) ( )
  VANS1 | Dec 30, 2009 |
A lot of valid criticism can be made of this novel. It is one of Dickens' shorter works and some of the characterisation is perfunctory, some of the plot not quite worked through. Also, of course, it is a manifestation of his paranoia of popular uprising. The book has had a pernicious effect in giving the impression to generations that the French Revolution consisted of the Terror and nothing else - a rather partial view to put it at it's mildest.
But the book succeeds brilliantly in its own terms. Dickens' imagination produces a heightened reality that is convincing, even when it maybe should not be. His horrible vision of the Revolution has been influential precisely because it is so convincing.
There was more to the Revolution than the prison massacres and the guillotine, but those are aspects that can not be dismissed or explained away.
  GeorgeBowling | Dec 25, 2009 |
This is very exciting story!
This story is written about the French Revolution.
I was really enjoy and I can understand so well because I studied French history. ( )
  asukak | Dec 20, 2009 |
what a great book. Charles Dickens has a very interesting way of describing. It`s not easy to read, but I enjoyed it very much. And it gives an important view into the French Revolution. ( )
  brigitte64 | Dec 3, 2009 |
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This tale is inscribed to the Lord John Russell in remembrance of many public services and private kindnesses
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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.
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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.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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