Quick plot synopsis - Set against the backdrop of the famous French Revolution, *A Tale of Two Cities* by Charles Dickens is a tale of London and Paris. Mr. Jarvis Lorry (confidential clerk at Tellson's Bank) travels to meet Lucie Manette (a ward of Tellson's Bank) to tell her she isn’t an orphan. They travel to Paris to meet her father, Doctor Manette, who's released from the Bastille after 18 years. He's housed in the Defarges' wine-shop, has lost his memory, but starts to regain it upon meet...

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."It rarely happens that a quote from a book haunts me, but this one… well, this one does. I finished "A Tale of Two Cities" about two weeks ago, yet I’m still not over the ending. How could I be? After all, this is one of those rare books that keep you thinking even after you've finished the last page and already closed the cover.The most intriguing thing about all th...

Don't fix what ain't broken, right?Even if it gets used way too much… Instead of trying out fresh plots and ideas, Charles Dickens keeps circling back to his main themes. He's kind of recycling himself here, and especially losing grip on the internal logic, coherence, and just plain believability of the thing. Forget about suspending your disbelief, because this feels so manufactured. Like a franchise of social critiqueIt's not terrible, but it's one of his weaker efforts. It reminds me of a cer...

This is Tessa's favorite. The book that Will grew to love. *A Tale of Two Cities* must have something special. If you're looking for classic book reviews, you can't go wrong with Dickens.

I am an old house, its walls cracked with fear✒ I am a sweet joke repeated until it's stale I am barren land, burdened with the right of usufruct I am a door locked for years, its key lost Welcome to Sydney Carton's city... where justice has two faces, sacrifice has two meanings, love has two colors, and revolutions have profiteers. Carton is one of the world's leaders of gloom, and the reason I fell under the spell of novels since I studied A Tale of Two Cities at the age of 15, and to this ...

DNF at page 150.Well, I can't believe I'm abandoning a Charles Dickens novel, but I just can't go on with A Tale of Two Cities. It's so different from the other two works by Dickens that I've read and loved. I don't know, I just don't like the tone of the story; it's hard to connect with the characters, and I'm just not enjoying it. I thought maybe something was wrong with me, but my mum saw A Tale of Two Cities on my shelf today, and she confessed that it was the only Dickens book she could nev...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ... it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"So begins A Tale of Two Cities, a perennial favorite. It was an instant success when it was first published, and its popularity has remained steady ever since, as one of the best selling novels of all time. For many, it is their most loved novel by Charles Dickens. If you're looking for classic literature, A Tale of Two Cities i...

Hundreds, thousands of stories long to have a quotable verse, just one. A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens' masterpiece as far as I'm concerned, is bookended by two of the most recognizable quotes in all of the English language. This is also the darkest story I have read of his, and no doubt, it's about the bloody French Revolution, and Dickens spares none of his acerbic wit to demonize what was rightly demonic. Yet, to his credit and genius, neither does he sugarcoat the great social injustices that...

My main goal when I teach *A Tale of Two Cities* to my sophomores is to make them realize that Charles Dickens didn't just write creaky, dusty, long novels that teachers inflict as some kind of twisted teenage rite of passage. Instead, I want them to understand why Dickens was *the* most popular writer in England and America back in the day. I want them to see the book for what it is: a suspenseful, comedic, and sentimental piece of pure entertainment. Because while *A Tale of Two Cities* is mas...

I'm too dumb for this.