Bookworm_A Tale of Two Cities

Author: (American) Charles Dickens, translated by Yang Xueyi
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Publish Date: 1997-01-01
Features: In 1775, in a room on the top floor of a tavern in Paris, an elderly white-haired man is busy making shoes. He had been a prisoner in the Bastille for 18 years. Now he is a free man, but he does not know his own name or recognize his friends. All he knows is that he must continue to make 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 has neither disappeared nor been forgotten. Soon, the dangerous secrets of the past bring Lucy and the people she loves back to Paris, where the guillotine, hungry for its victims, awaits the enemies of France.