Celebrating Openings #3: “A Tale Of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens

As promised in post #1, this series is going to look at some of my personal favourites among book openings, starting with the classics. The word classic and Charles Dickens are, of course, synonymous, but when it comes to openings he definitely has some chops.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was ...