What Dickens' Most Famous Book Says About His Troubled Psyche | Literary Classics

Charles Dickens' classic novel 'A Tale Of Two Cities' tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the...

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