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It was the time of the French Revolution - a period of great change and great danger. It had been a period when injustice was met with 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 with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported from France to England. It would appear that they could take up the threads of these 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 some other 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, those days where your English Literature professor ordered you to read A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. You were immediately confounded by the perplexity of the storyline and confused by the language of the times. Within your despair, you struggled, endeavored and persevered to reach the final outcome of the classic novel. Having satisfactorily completed certain requirements of that difficult semester, you vowed to never again read classic English literature. As the years accumulated, you garnered wisdom and spirituality as you aged and also you gathered far greater literary acumen. Your brain was transformed and also you began to yearn for the fantastic stories which could only be told by the real masters. Anon, you found yourself immersed in the incredible classic writings of Charles Dickens. For nobody could so completely transport anyone to the mean filthy streets of Oliver Twists London or the horror and dread on 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 a tyrannical boss such as Ebenezer Scrooge or imbue the viciousness of a violent revolutionary famous brands Madame Defarge. Contemporary writers only wish they had the amazing ability to set-up magnificent unlikely heroes and fantastic characters whose flame of eternal hope burned against an all consuming darkness.

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