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Quality
This was a good quality kindle edition
Fifty five plus years later, so glad for the opportunity to read for the first (real) time.
There are more characters — dickens is too good at drawing in all the characters he needs, each with the needed attributes, to ... Read More
While difficult to start with the unfamiliar writing style of the time, it was quick to grab and hold me to the end.
Shipping
My heart was beating fast all afternoon as i finished it.
Packaging/appearance
We're directly beside characters in the thick of turmoil, including a blow-by-blow description of the storming of the bastille.
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However the editing mistakes in this kindle edition seriously detract from the book and distract the readers attention from dickens masterful authorship
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This was a beautiful story but i found it hard to read because of the antiquated prose
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The total enjoyment of reading was occasionally interrupted by some difficult to decipher colloquial language
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I liked this penguin classics version’s format as it seems to be close to the original publication
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You have to begin piecing things together on your own
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There is the defarge family madame and monsieur defarge leaders within the paris community of saintantoine imprisoning and punishing aristocrats and alleged supporters of the aristocratic order
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Doctor manette had been unjustly imprisoned by an aristocratic family the evrémondes hiding crimes of their own from public scrutiny
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Charles has relinquished his aristocratic title and privileges in rebellion against the tyrannical rule of the aristocracy in france