A Tale of Two Cities

Author: (English) Charles Dickens
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
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A Tale of Two Cities: It is 1775, in a room on the second floor of a tavern in Paris, where 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 name and cannot recognize his friends. All he knows is that he must continue making shoes. On a carriage heading to Paris sits Lucie, his daughter whom he has never met. Lucie 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, during the stormy days of the French Revolution, the past neither disappears nor is forgotten. Soon, the dangerous secrets of the past draw Lucie and the people she loves back to Paris, where the terrifying guillotine, hungry for the enemies of France, awaits.