About This Novel
"A Tale of Two Cities" is one of the works by the British writer Dickens with the most twists and turns, the most thrilling storyline. The novel takes the French Revolution as the background, with Paris and London as the places where the story takes place. It tells the story of the French aristocrats, the Marquis Evremonde brothers, who almost killed her entire family in order to seize a beautiful peasant woman. Doctor Manette reported the matter to the authorities, but was framed by the Marquis brothers and imprisoned for 18 years. After being released from prison, the mentally disturbed Manette was picked up by his daughter Lucy. At that time, both Darnay and Carton were pursuing Lucy, and she chose Darnay. During the French Revolution, Darnay was arrested and sentenced to death after being accused by the Defarges. Lucy went to France to rescue her husband, but failed. At this time, Caton pretended to be a man and rescued Dardenne, and the Manette family returned to England secretly.
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How come no one reads such a good book?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of ignorance; it was the time of faith, it was the time of doubt; it was the season of sunshine, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; before us There is nothing, there is nothing before us; we are all going straight to heaven, we are all going straight to hell - in short, that era is so similar to our own that some noisy pundits insist that, for better or for worse, it can only be judged as "the most..."
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Official(2)Scraped 2mo ago
How come no one reads such a good book?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of ignorance; it was the time of faith, it was the time of doubt; it was the season of sunshine, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; before us There is nothing, there is nothing before us; we are all going straight to heaven, we are all going straight to hell - in short, that era is so similar to our own that some noisy pundits insist that, for better or for worse, it can only be judged as "the most..."
