A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens's novel of the French Revolution braids love and sacrifice through the terror of London and Paris.
Charles Dickens’s historical novel is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. Around the freed prisoner Doctor Manette, his daughter Lucie, and the two men who love her, Dickens builds a story of resurrection, mob violence, and self-sacrifice that ends with one of the most famous closing lines in English literature. It is his gripping meditation on justice, vengeance, and redemption.
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Muhammad Yunus
Both Germinal and A Tale of Two Cities made an impression on me. They are about the lives of poor people and the kind of life they lead in poverty. In Bangladesh it’s all about poverty, the extreme poverty you see around you and you want to do something about it. These books talk about poverty in Europe.
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