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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ’It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…’ A Tale of Two Cities is arguably the greatest story of mistaken identity ever told, interweaving a heart-breaking family tragedy with the bloody French Revolution. Dr Manette is released from imprisonment in the Bastille and is reunited with his daughter, Lucie. Two men – an apathetic English lawyer and an exiled French aristocrat – vie for her love in a time of uncertainty, sacrifice and terror. Self-proclaimed by Dickens as ‘the best story I have ever written’, A Tale of Two Cities is an enduring epic of historical fiction.

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Language

English

ISBN

9780008516154

Number of pages

432

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A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.