A Tale of Two Cities: English-Chinese Contrast

Author: Charles Dickens
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Publish Date: 2001-03-01
Features: In 1775, in a room on the top floor of a tavern in Paris, an elderly man with white hair is busy making shoes. He had been a prisoner in the Bastille for 18 years. Now he is free, but he does not know his own name or recognize his friends. All he knows is that he must continue making shoes. On a carriage heading to Paris sits Lucy, his daughter whom he has never met. Lucy brings her father back to London, and under her love and care, he forgets his past and learns to live again as a free man. However, in the stormy days of the French Revolution, the past neither disappears nor is forgotten. Soon, the dangerous secrets of the past draw Lucy and the people she loves back to Paris, where the terrifying death machine—the guillotine—awaits the enemies of France with hunger.