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- Walt Disney — One of the stories he said he especially liked in his school English class source ↗
Summary
Charles Dickens' 1859 novel of the French Revolution, set in London and Paris before and during the Reign of Terror. The story follows Dr. Manette, released from eighteen years in the Bastille, his daughter Lucie, the exiled aristocrat Charles Darnay, and the dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton, whose sacrificial act at the guillotine provides one of literature's most famous closing lines.