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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 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:) 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. 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. 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. no reviews | add a review
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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.
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