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Literary Fiction · 2022 · PG-13

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

One of the best-selling novels of all time is now distinctively packaged in hardcover with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil over into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to savage vengeance--does one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. The result is a powerful story of love, sacrifice, and redemption amid

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Violence

Some

Moderate

Language

None

None

Sexual Content

None

None

Substance Use

None

None

Emotional Intensity

A lot

Strong

What this book is about

Set against the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, Dickens's most plot-driven novel follows two men who love the same woman — building toward one of literature's most famous acts of self-sacrifice.

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Guillotine executions and mob violence

Madame Defarge as a deeply menacing villain

The Terror as historically violent backdrop

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