A Tale of Two Citiesin a sentence
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I'd pick out books that interested me: "A Tale of Two Cities," by Charles Dickens; "Macaulay's histories"; "The Conquest of Mexico" and "The Conquest of Peru," illustrated.
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A Tale of Two Cities = Charles Dickens' historical novel of love and sacrifice in England and France leading to the French Revolution (1859)
- It looked old, leather-bound, the title stamped in gold on the front. A Tale of Two Cities. (source)
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- I was the only kid, white or Indian, who knew that Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities.† (source)
- Considering that he has lived through five or six languages, five or six countries, two or three centuries of history; has seen his country, city, and family butchered, bargained with pirates and bureaucrats, eaten filth in order to stay alive; that he has survived every degradation known to this century, considering all those liabilities, isn't it amazing that he can read a Condensed and Simplified for Modern Students edition of A Tale of Two Cities?† (source)
- That was Rahel being Sydney Carton being Charles Darnay, as he stood on the steps, waiting to be guillotined, in the Classics Illustrated comic's version of A Tale of Two Cities.† (source)
- I had read A Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel.† (source)
- "A Tale of Two Cities," she answered, her voice soft.† (source)
- I'd craft elaborate covers—a tiny, two-dimensional working guillotine for my essay on A Tale of Two Cities; a science lab on prisms with the header rainbowed in multiple colors; a scarlet letter for …. well, you get the picture.† (source)
- About A Tale of Two Cities?† (source)
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