Novel · 1859
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Novel · 1859 · English · Victorian
A Tale of Two Cities
London and Paris, and a man who dies in another's place.
Historical fictionSacrificeRevolutionResurrection
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Dickens's tightest plot: recalled to life, buried alive, substituted at the scaffold — one metaphor worked through to its end.
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