A Tale of Two Cities
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'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!'
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There, the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.
This book was written by Charles Dickens, not by me I just want people to enjoy this. If you guys want me to analyze this book just tell me and I will gladly do it :) (This is the version by Penguin Classics
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