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It was enough time of the French Revolution - a period of great change and great danger. It had been a period when injustice was met by way of a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds. Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited along with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported from France to England. It could seem that they could take the threads of their lives in peace. As fate would have it though, the pair are summoned to the Old Bailey to testify against a Frenchman - Charles Darnay - falsely accused of treason. Strangely enough, Darnay bears an uncanny resemblance to another man in the courtroom, the dissolute lawyer's clerk Sydney Carton. It really is a coincidence that saves Darnay from certain doom more than once. Brilliantly plotted, the novel is rich in drama, romance, and heroics that culminate in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine. It had been the best of that time period, it was the worst of that time period, days past where your English Literature professor ordered you to read AN ACCOUNT of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. You were immediately confounded by the perplexity of the story and confused by the language of the changing times. Within your despair, you struggled, endeavored and persevered to attain the final outcome of the classic novel. Having satisfactorily completed the requirements of that difficult semester, you vowed never to again read classic English literature. As the years accumulated, you garnered wisdom and spirituality as you aged so you gathered much larger literary acumen. Your mind was transformed so you commenced to yearn for the fantastic stories which could only be told by the true masters. Anon, you found yourself immersed in the incredible classic writings of Charles Dickens. For no one could so completely transport you to the mean filthy streets of Oliver Twists London or the horror and dread from the Reign of Terror in that unfortunate tale of London and Paris in the entire year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. No other writer could place you so deeply in to the mind of your tyrannical boss such as Ebenezer Scrooge or imbue the viciousness of your violent revolutionary famous brands Madame Defarge. Contemporary writers only wish that they had the amazing ability to create magnificent unlikely heroes and fantastic characters whose flame of eternal hope burned against an all consuming darkness.

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