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A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1859
Pages
Pages 490

A doctor's daughter marries a French aristocrat who has renounced his title, and when the Revolution's terror reaches for his family in Paris, a dissolute lawyer who could be his double takes his place at the guillotine to save him.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

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