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Revolution and love in the shadow of the guillotine
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 the spring of hope it was the winter of despair this is how Charles Dickens begins his extraordinary tale These words foreshadow the dramatic events presented with epic scope
Paris and London on the eve of the French Revolution This turbulent period is shown through the prism of the fates of a young French aristocrat an unjustly imprisoned doctor his daughter and an English lawyer After eighteen years spent in the Bastille Dr Manette is released Fortunately now on English soil he begins a second life alongside his daughter Lucie There the paths of two men intersect Charles Darnay who fled from France and Sydney Carton a brilliant lawyer a loner and a drunkard who will be united by their love for one woman the doctors daughter Due to a dramatic turn of events the heroes are forced to leave the quiet streets of London and come to Paris under the rule of bloody terror Caught up in the whirlwind of events they will be put to a severe test
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