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A Tale of Two Cities (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

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The early rumblings of the French Revolution were echoing across the English Channel when, in Paris, an old man waited in an attic for his first meeting with a daughter whom he had not seen since she was a baby. With the aid of Mr. Jarvis Lorry, an agent for the Franco-British banking house of Tellson & Co., the lovely Lucie Manette had been brought to Paris to be reunited with her father, who had been imprisoned for eighteen years in the Bastille. Above the wine shop of Madame and Monsieur Defarge, Dr. Manette was kept secretly until his rescuers could take him...

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