No matter how many times I read the book, or watch the film, every time it feels like the first time. The power of it never diminishes and each character pulls at my heartstrings as powerfully as the first time... . To my mind, this is the greatest insight into human nature ever recorded....
The times—all times---are summed up as:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we
were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way –
And the noblest of human feelings in the most dissolute of men at the time of his ultimate sacrifice, by the lines:
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.
Charles Dickens truly wrote for eternity because times and human nature is the same today as it was in his time, and as it will ever be till the end of time...
Some details:
Illustrator - Hablot Knight Browne
Cover artist - Hablot Knight Browne
The story was serialized weekly from April 1859 to November 1859
The genre is put down as Novel - Historical - Social criticism
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