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A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens Complete Works)
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Jun 26, 2013
bookshelves: read-authors-c-d, classics, charles-dickens, 19th-century-ish
Read 2 times. Last read January 1, 2013 to March 1, 2013.
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“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities

“Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"
It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.”
― A Tale of Two Cities

“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities

“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities

“The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
Reading Progress
January 1, 2013
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Started Reading
March 1, 2013
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Finished Reading
June 26, 2013
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September 25, 2016
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Started Reading
(Other Hardcover Edition)
September 25, 2016
– Shelved
(Other Hardcover Edition)
October 30, 2016
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51.95%
"mass of scarecrows heaving to and fro, with frequent gleams of light above the billowy heads, where steel blades and bayonets shone in the sun. A tremendous roar arose from the throat of St. Antoine, and a forest of naked arms struggled in the air like shrivelled branches of trees in a winter wind: all the fingers convulsively clutching at every weapon or semblance of a weapon that was thrown up from the depths below"
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227
November 1, 2016
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53.09%
"The sea of black and threatening waters, and of destructive upheaving of wave against wave, whose depths were yet unfathomed and whose forces were yet unknown. The remorseless sea of turbulently swaying shapes, voices of vengeance, and face hardened in the furnaces of suffering until the touch of pity could make no mark on them."
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232
November 4, 2016
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53.09%
""The sea of black and threatening waters, and of destructive upheaving of wave against wave, whose depths were yet unfathomed and whose forces were yet unknown. The remorseless sea of turbulently swaying shapes, voices of vengeance, and face hardened in the furnaces of suffering until the touch of pity could make no mark on them.""
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232
December 22, 2016
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Finished Reading
(Other Hardcover Edition)