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I can't believe I'm re-reading this. A Tale of Two Cities stands out as the ONLY book assigned to me in school (in all my years of school) that I did not read. I tried, I did, but I just couldn't wade through it. (Didn't help that it was assigned immediately after Great Expectations. I'd HAD it with Dickens by then. What was my high school freshman English teacher thinking?) To fulfill the Ultimately Reading Challenge category, "book you were supposed to read in school," this was my only option.
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Becoming rich, Dickens changed, at 45 throw the wife who has lived with him in his early poor years in a small flat raising 10 kids out, taking all the kids away from her cause according his statement published in Times and a couple of other magazines, she is bad and mad and she has failed at... being a "housekeeper", blamed his wife for having 10 children when he had only wanted 4, tried to use his influence to convince the public she is mad and should be kept in an asylum, punished the kids fo
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