Question of the week: Tell us about one of your favourite London books "A stirring favorite of mine on London and Paris is Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. The novel begins with one of the most famous opening lines in British literature, "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times," spoken by one of the novel's chief protagonists as we awaits a heroic, self-sacrificial death by guillotine on the scaffold.
The time is the 1790s during THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, one of history's great epochal events. The portraits of London and Parisian life during this time are magnificently vivid, the characters are unforgettable in typically Dickensian fashion, and much of the London action takes place in Soho Square just north of the London Centre. And the climax is both marvellously surprising and redemptive. A bracing read!!!!"
- Greg Kucich
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