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	A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) Charles Dickens Penguin Classics, 2003 - 544 pages average customer review:based on 59 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Awesome - my favorite Dicken's novel!

I like all of Dicken's work because of his ability to bring a place and period to life as well as his gift for creating round characters that seem like real people you can reach out and touch. This novel certainly represents these qualities, but has a dark quality with no type of comic relief. It is intense and it captures the psychological and emotional climate of the the French revolution in a visceral way.

This novel which parallels the rise of the French revolution, compares and contrasts life in two cities Paris and London. It also develops a very intricate plot that is difficult to follow if one does not read steadily. In other words, it's not a light plot that you can set down for a few days and pick back up. On the other hand, it's extremely engaging and you won't want to put it down.

When I read it, I actually bought the Cliff's notes because I needed to set the book down for a few days at a time. When I picked it up again, I found the Cliff's notes useful to help me engage again without a lot of looking back through the book for all the twists and turns in the plot and lives of the characters.

This is a great novel in every respect, but it is not a happy one. It captures the harsh reality of the French Revolution in deep way. If you are studying the French Revolution, I would say it's a must read to truly get the spirit of what was going on. I don't believe history books can do it justice, you need the inside view which this provides.

Lastly, if you are simply enjoy a good story, you will like this. Don't expect a "everyone lived happily ever" type ending, however. This is heavy stuff, almost in the spirit of a Russian existentialist novel.

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A Tale of Two Cities spun by one genuis named Dickens!

Who can forget some of the immortal lines from this 1859 classic by Dickens? "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times begins this immortal story of the Reign of Terror during the brutal,bloody and atheistical French Revolution.
Great characters march from London to Paris in these stirring pages: Dr.Manette who had been imprisoned in the Bastille; his
lovely daughter Lucy: Charles Darnay and Sidney Carton; the
evil Defarges; the plucky Pross: Mr. Jarvis and others. Characters pour forth in profusion from the inexhaustible pen of the
master of English fiction,
If you haven't read this book in years pick it up again and enjoy an exciting tale. The book was written by Dickens after he had read Thomas Carlyle's "French Revolution" and many other books on the period. His research shows in a realistic rendering of what one family experienced during this terrible time. A time
for suffering and redemption; a time of cowardly traitors and also great bravery. A time ripe with all facets of the human
emotions Dickens explored so well.
The preface, footnotes, illustrations and several appendices in the Penguin edition add to the reader's enjoyment.

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"The" Novel of Novels

From the first lines of the novel about London and Paris to the last speech by Sydney Carton at the end the book held us in its grip. I have read Carlyle's History of the French Revolution, Dickens' main source, and find this much the superior. My wife and I read this in high school and now in our seventies appreciate it more than then, and we appreciated it then, too. Dickens' engaging style remains with the reader. A few years back we walked by the few remaining stones of the Bastille and they seemed redolent of the novel. Reading this book was more than entertainment, it was an experience.

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Unforgettable

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

So begins one of the greatest books ever written (in my own humble opinion), about injustice, love, horror, fear, hate, and sacrifice. It's powerful and mindblowing, and made me stay up till midnight on a schoolnight just to finish it, when I had to wake up at five o'clock -- and I already knew the ending. It's that good.

The characters are real and incredible; Dr. Manette is a doting father and strong person (the scene in which he tries to begin shoemaking again directly after Darnay's second imprisonment is miserable to read about, and sad in its own way), Lucie Manette is a courageous and strong person too, though not the focal point of the book, Charles Darnay, while not super-developed, is also realistic. But the character that truly makes this book a masterpiece is Sydney Carton. Melancholy, a drunk, almost friendless, in love with a woman whom he wants to be rid of him, and enigmatic, he is a fascinating and tragic person. Reading the scenes of him strolling around the streets the night before Darnay's to-be execution, brooding and silent, I wondered why they had been put in, but thinking back on it I know. It was essential to his character and the plot, like Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, preparing quietly and almost sadly, but with a fierce inner joy as well.

The ending almost made me cry, it was that powerful. Now, despite the fact I know I might be disappointed, I'm desperate to rent the movie.

"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."

Rating: Masterpiece

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sacrifice for love

I loved this book because its about romance and how a man sacrificed his life to see the women he loves to be happy and to be with her daughter and husband freed because all he did with his life was scam people and he felt good in his heart with at least one good thing that he accomplished in his life so he gave up and switched with here husband and died for her.

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