A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens (The Penguin English Library)
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A historical novel set in revolutionary Paris; the streets running red with blood; Madame La Guillotine chopping of heads by the buttload; two men loving the same woman; unjust, unexplained and mysterious imprisonments; doppelgängers, spies, informants and denunciations - this novel has all the things I love and I'm here for it. In Dickens' own famous words: Please Sir, I want some more. One should not expect a historically accurate depiction of the French Revolution, but it is still bloody fun (bloody as in heads and hearts on pikes being carried through the streets). I always love learning the origin of a well-known phrase. Here, I learned where "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" comes from. Neat.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
A historical novel set in revolutionary Paris; the streets running red with blood; Madame La Guillotine chopping of heads by the buttload; two men loving the same woman; unjust, unexplained and mysterious imprisonments; doppelgängers, spies, informants and denunciations - this novel has all the things I love and I'm here for it. In Dickens' own famous words: Please Sir, I want some more. One should not expect a historically accurate depiction of the French Revolution, but it is still bloody fun (bloody as in heads and hearts on pikes being carried through the streets). I always love learning the origin of a well-known phrase. Here, I learned where "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" comes from. Neat.