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Although most first readers of A Tale of Two Cities know its rough outlinesthe father locked away in the Bastille, the beautiful, dutiful daughter who helps him to find comfort once he is released, the frenzied slaughter of the revolution, Carton the Gothic hero, handsomely imperfect, who finds real life in his sacrificial death (the "far, far better thing that I do . . ." under the blade of the Guillotine)these readers might believe that they are opening the pages of a political or, say, historical novel. 
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