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A Tale of Two Cities
Classic historical fiction
A Tale of Two Cities
In the years surrounding the French Revolution, dissolute English lawyer Sydney Carton becomes entangled with the lives of French aristocrat Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette, the woman they both love. Lucie's father has survived long imprisonment in the Bastille, but old family crimes draw the household back toward Paris as revolutionary violence intensifies. Carton's resemblance to Darnay creates a final possibility for courage from a man who has long considered his life wasted. Urgent, dramatic, and emotionally direct, this historical classic is made for a stormy weekend and readers drawn to revolution, imprisonment, resurrection, sacrifice, and a seemingly lost person finding one redemptive act.
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Revolutionary and mob violence; executions by guillotine and beheading; murder, gun violence and blood; imprisonment and psychological trauma; child death; alcoholism; grave robbing/corpses; rape and sexual abuse referenced in backstory.
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