A Tale of Two Cities (Collins Classics)

Why did I wait until I was 58 years old to read this!? Wow! Of course, I already knew the iconic closing line of the book. But I was not prepared for the impact it would have on me when I read in the context of the whole story. The journey through the story is captivating and immerses the reader into the period of the French Revolution. One cannot help but be drawn to and invested in the characters. Dickens' writing is masterful. Don't wait until you're 58 years old to read this classic!

What else can I say but that it's a literary classic that everyone should read. It also reminds of how much can be appreciated and learned by knowing our world history.

Read this so long ago that I decided to read again. Knowing the story, having seen so many performances, I wondered how it would resonate with me now. Can’t believe how much I enjoyed it again. As I read, I remembered it, but I didn’t find it boring or old. Dickens is fantastic! Highly recommended, especially if you have not actually read the book. This was a Kindle ebook.

a beautiful depiction of substitutionary atonement , Sydney Carlton accepts the penalty for Charles Darnny, , though Sydney is innocent.

In Today's Fast Paced World, We Like to Take Shortcuts. Please Don't Take a Shortcut. Read the Book. The Movie Does Not Do Justice to the Storyline. The Only Way to Impart the Feelings of This Book, is to Read This Book. If Charles Dickens Were a Playwright, I'm Sure He Would have Written Some Magnificent Plays, But His Works Were Meant to be Read Not Visualized on the Screen. A Great Deal is Lost. It Likens Me Back to When I Saw The Exorcist. Everyone Said how Horrifying the Movie Was and How it Would Change Your Entire Belief System. I Went and Saw it and Nothing. I Didn't Even Think it Was That Good of a Movie, not Even One I'd Want to Watch Twice. A Few Years Later, at a Friends Urging I Read the Book. A Damned Good Book. Goose Bumps Ran Up Me. The Book Was Completely Different From the Movie. The Book Made Sense. The Movie Was Hollywood. Lesson Learned. Always Read the Book First. You Might Avoid Some Unnecessary Disappointment.A Tale of Two Cities Was Written By English Author Charles Dickens (1812-1870. Dickens Received Most of the Background on the French Revolution From his Friend Thomas Carlyle. This is a Long Book, But Because it is So Gripping, it Does Hold Your Attention For Long Periods of Time. You'll Find Yourself Not Wanting To Put It Down. The Characters and Lives are All Intertwined and it Adds a Depth and Richness to the Book. This is a Historical Fiction that Spans nearly 20 Years From the Time Preceding and During the French Revolution. The Two Cities to Speak Of, Are London and Paris.The Main Storyline Characters Involve:Miss Lucie Manette (Main Character) "Spoiler Alert" (She Falls in Love and Marries Charles Darney)Doctor Alexandre Manette (Lucie's Father) "Spoiler Alert" "She Thought He Was Dead. Nope!!! He Was In Prison For 18 Years"Miss Pross (Lucie's Governess)Mr. Lorry (Dr. Manette’s Associate)Mr. Ernest Defarge (Dr. Manette's Former Servant)Mr. Charles Darney (Kidnapped French Aristocrat) "Spoiler Alert" "Abducted and Stashed on a Ship-Later Rescued, Charged With Murder, Marries Lucie Mannette."Mr. Stryver and Mr. Carton (Barristers Representing Charles Darney) "Spoiler Alert" "They Worked Tirelessly Trying To Get Charles Acquitted of Murder-And They Did"France Seems to Be Pretty Cold Blooded in this Era of Time, but I Guess History Backs That Up. There are a Lot of Hardships and Tragedies in the Book, but Triumphs Too. A Tale of Two Cities Has it's Share of Twists and Turns, but Sometimes Goes on More Than it Needs To. Still, This is a Must Read and Rightly So. It's One of the Classics and One of the Best Read and Most loved Books of All Time. I'm Just Sorry I Waited so Long to Read it After Watching The Movie. I Recommend the Book. I Don't Recommend the Movie.★ THANK YOU FOR READING MY REVIEW

See above. The book was selected by one of the members of one of my book groups. I’d read it in school more than 50 years ago. It was a different experience reading it again.

I only gave it four stars because I actually haven’t begun reading it lol. But it came in great condition. The words are large enough and it’s easy to handle. My parents are fond of the classics and period films, and they recommended this book to me. Charles Dickens is a harder author to comprehend, so keep that in mind when purchasing.

As a high school curriculum, my teacher required my class to read A Tale of Two Cities. This book caught my attention starting from the opening sentence "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" and kept me equally engaged till the last sentence "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." Although, in the beginning, I found the book's language challenging that required me to read some passages more than once to draw essence, but after few chapters I fell in love with the book. This book contains multiple heart throbbing events that left me awestruck, such as the tragic peasants' sufferings, fierce mob scenes; brutality at guillotine etc. Dickens infuses the story with a variety of emotions, ranging from love to hatred, sacrifice to selfishness, kindness to brutality, nurturing to killing, joy to tragedy, generosity to greed, as well as romance and suspense. Dickens fully makes use of several literary devices, such as allusions and imageries to embellish the script. Not only that I enjoyed the book's fictitious story, but also the book enhanced my knowledge of the history related to French Revolution and England. In the book, Dickens exhibits the social and political condition of 18th century England and France; the story of A Tale of Two Cities takes place in two major cities of these countries, London and Paris. In particular, Sydney Carton, the most complex and dynamic character of the novel, touched me the most. He emerges from a weak and sensual character, initially described as a "man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away" to a powerful character capable of making the ultimate sacrifice by giving up his life for the woman he loves. Dickens' illustration of Carton's death scene; his recital of the words "I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die, "and the words "Twenty-three" impact me the most, causing me to shed few tears. The book possesses many other attractions such as duality of characters. Specifically, the duality of Lucie Manette and Madame Defarge permeates throughout the novel. Dickens portrays Lucie as a nurturing character who "ever busily [winds] the golden thread that bound them all together, weaving the service of her happy influence through the tissue of all their lives." In contrast, Dickens describes Madame Defarge as a "ruthless woman, a strong and fearless character, of shrewd sense" who "was absolutely without pity." A Tale of Two Cities provides both education and entertainment; I highly recommend this book to any avid reader who seeks a book filled with humor, emotions, romance, and tragedy.

Es la melodía que suena superpuesta cuando aparecen l@s ángeles en escena y como un mejor himno nacional en la película dirigida por Jack Conway sobre esta "Historia de dos Ciudades".Creo que este libro tan magnífico debería venderse en un pack junto con otros dos, el diario de Ana Frank y La rebelión de las masas de Ortega y Gasset.De nuevo en la historia creo que estamos asistiendo a que ciertos grupos de poder, como pasó en la rebelión de Francia, en la de Rusia de 1917 y en la Alemania de Hitler, ahora multiplicado por la difusión de las redes sociales, a empoderar a personas cuyo discurso es el mismo de l@s Defarge frente a l@s Evrémonde. No olvidemos la cantidad de niños que son prostituidos, vendidos, traficados, usados para cobrar dinero público y demás, por sus progenitores que ahora esgrimen el discurso de que si dices que eso no es correcto, es que eres racista o poco inclusivo...Jesucristo posiblemente ha sido la persona famosa más injustamente asesinada en la historia de la humanidad (El Maestro y Margarita de Bulgakov) pues seguro que no hizo daño ni a una mosca. Las ideologías fundamentalistas pervierten perversamente su legado.

Absolutely loved this book! i highly recommend it. Love, danger and courage! Got to know and feel for the main characters.

安いので買いました。印刷がきれいですか、字があまりにも小さくて、すごく苦労しました。

Si è detto e stradetto che è uno dei romanzi più deboli del mio autore prediletto, fin dai tempi della adolescenza, ed è vero che la macchinosità della trama e l'inverosimiglianza di non pochi episodi (il culmine è il salvataggio finale di Darnay mediante narcotizzatone, per superare l'ovvio rifiuto di salvarsi a scapito di un altro che la virtuosa positività a tutto tondo dell'esemplare idealtipico del buono dickensiano avrebbe comportato) mettono a dura prova la disponibilità ad accettare le macchine delle coincidenze, dei ritorni e delle agnizioni che ogni fedele dickensiano deve mettere in conto nell'accostarsi alla prosa del nostro. Tuttavia l'affresco storico sociologico sulla rivoluzione francese dà più, in argomento, di molte letture "serie" di saggi storici. La fonte dichiarata è la storia di Carlyle, inspiegabilmente non tradotta in italiano, che non manca di ricordare, per la condanna di ogni estremismo, il piccolo ma prezioso lavoro del nostro Manzoni. Per chi preferisca coltivare il dubbio e l'aggiornamento critico costante piuttosto che l'adesione a gabbie ideologiche alla Mathiez - Lefebvre, lo spunto per la riflessione è presente in ogni pagina, insieme al godimento per le sempre gustose miniature dei "buoni", dei "cattivi" e dei "buffi" dickensiani, anche qui profuse a piene mani. Inutile aggiungere che l'inglese di Dickens è una musica sempre armoniosa, che vale lo sforzo, per me non indifferente, di passare dalla traduzione all'originale.

Las portadas son de cartón y muy delicadas, es incómodo de sujetar. Además, la versión es muy académica y si eres muy fluido en inglés, no la recomiendo.