always misses out far too much. Now I reckon this is Dickens at his best - the long over convoluted sentences are rare, the plot is tight, the characters believable. Oh the suspense! This is one of the few historical novels from Mr Dickens, set just before and in the early years of Revolutionary France it is mixture of love story (Carton/Darnay battling over the lovely Lucie Manette) pure history - details of the horrors of the Ancien Regime and the effects of the Terror, and a study of the psychological effects of wrongful (and solitary) imprisonment in the person of Sr Manette - victim of the infamous lettres de cahier. The opening scenes at Blackheath and the political trial of Darnay set the novel off in an appropriately sinister way and establish ably the time of rumour and fear of the late eighteenth century. The descriptions of life in France are so vivid, and unrivalled. This book is how most of us get an impression of the French Revolution and the mass executions. A true classic - and well worth reading. Rating: 9/10Saturday 12 January 2008
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
As seen in a famous film with Dirk Bogarde - but any film of a Charles Dickens' book
always misses out far too much. Now I reckon this is Dickens at his best - the long over convoluted sentences are rare, the plot is tight, the characters believable. Oh the suspense! This is one of the few historical novels from Mr Dickens, set just before and in the early years of Revolutionary France it is mixture of love story (Carton/Darnay battling over the lovely Lucie Manette) pure history - details of the horrors of the Ancien Regime and the effects of the Terror, and a study of the psychological effects of wrongful (and solitary) imprisonment in the person of Sr Manette - victim of the infamous lettres de cahier. The opening scenes at Blackheath and the political trial of Darnay set the novel off in an appropriately sinister way and establish ably the time of rumour and fear of the late eighteenth century. The descriptions of life in France are so vivid, and unrivalled. This book is how most of us get an impression of the French Revolution and the mass executions. A true classic - and well worth reading. Rating: 9/10
always misses out far too much. Now I reckon this is Dickens at his best - the long over convoluted sentences are rare, the plot is tight, the characters believable. Oh the suspense! This is one of the few historical novels from Mr Dickens, set just before and in the early years of Revolutionary France it is mixture of love story (Carton/Darnay battling over the lovely Lucie Manette) pure history - details of the horrors of the Ancien Regime and the effects of the Terror, and a study of the psychological effects of wrongful (and solitary) imprisonment in the person of Sr Manette - victim of the infamous lettres de cahier. The opening scenes at Blackheath and the political trial of Darnay set the novel off in an appropriately sinister way and establish ably the time of rumour and fear of the late eighteenth century. The descriptions of life in France are so vivid, and unrivalled. This book is how most of us get an impression of the French Revolution and the mass executions. A true classic - and well worth reading. Rating: 9/10
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