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My feelings about A Tale of Two Cities are so well summed-up by E.M. Forster, I have to cut and paste this quote here:
The case of Dickens is significant. Dickens' people are nearly all flat. ... Nearly every one can be summed up in a sentence, and yet there is this wonderful feeling of human depth. ... Part of the genius of Dickens is that he does use types and caricatures, people whom we recognize the instant they re-enter, and yet achieves effects that are not mechanical and a vision of humani...more
I read this in 9th grade English. I really should give the book more stars because I like it much more now, in retrospect, than I liked it at the time. I remember not being up to date on the assigned reading and having a quiz and I would answer that everything foreshadowed teh storming of the Bastille (of course once that happened I had no more safe, go to answers!) Some day when I'm old and rich and I have tons of time I'm going to re-read all these books and see what I really think of them now
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Can't really say much about Dickens. This is my favourite of his novels.
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Jun 09, 2009
Lucinda
marked it as want-to-get-a-copy
Oct 04, 2009
Kathleen Adams
marked it as to-read
