“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of loneliness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity… 
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These words, which could have been written in this day and age, were written in the 19th century and certainly provide food for thought.. With one of the most famous and promising opening sentences in literature, Dickens sets A tale of two cities at times of the French Revolution; in an epoch of aristocratic corruption and outrageous luxury while common people starved… It was such an unbearable situation that it led revolutionaries to rise up against the powerful. Continue reading
Set during the French and Indian war, The Last of the Mohicans is an adventure story involving guns and tomahawks, brutal battles for survival, revenge and even romance.
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