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jmclouse13 's review for:
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
I know now what I did not know then (when I first read this book) - that Dickens is an acquired taste. But somehow as a tiny seventh grader I fell in love with this book and the romance of the French Revolution. Only at that point I didn't know just how many revolutions there had been in France.
It contains one of the most quotable lines in English literature, it is historical, it was a serial novel. All of this and more are amongst the academic reasons to read this book.
However, I still think that Dickensian prose has the power to captivate us all if we let it. The trick is to read it a chapter at a time, just like they would have when it was released as a serial.
It contains one of the most quotable lines in English literature, it is historical, it was a serial novel. All of this and more are amongst the academic reasons to read this book.
However, I still think that Dickensian prose has the power to captivate us all if we let it. The trick is to read it a chapter at a time, just like they would have when it was released as a serial.