Welcome to 2023! On Mondays this year, let’s discuss and have fun with books. No I’m not writing book reviews. But this website is for writers, and writers like books right? So let’s have FUN with books!
Week #24 – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 1859
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris during the French Revolution. It tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie. It is fiction, but generally historically accurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities
The opening and closing lines are some of the most famous literary lines
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,”
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.”
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081595/
Batman: The Dark Knight Rises was based on this book
https://slate.com/culture/2012/07/the-dark-knight-rises-inspired-by-a-tale-of-two-cities-the-parts-that-draw-from-dickens.html
https://collider.com/dark-knight-rises-tale-of-two-cities/
https://backtothebookshelf.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/from-paris-to-gotham-similarities-between-the-dark-knight-rises-and-a-tale-of-two-cities-part-1/
Charles Dickens’ 10 best novels, ranked
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/charles-dickens-christmas-carol-best-novels-great-expectations-david-copperfield-oliver-twist-a8664516.html
London
Paris
Have you read A Tale of Two Cities? Have you seen The Dark Knight Rises? Did you see the resemblance? Tell us in the comments!
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