Dickens That Made a Difference
Celebrities reveal why they love the classic author Oprah is reading this holiday season.
A Tale of Two Cities
When stories become iconic, you sometimes forget what made them so special in the first place. They can
become the punch line to a joke. But A Tale of Two Cities not only has the best first line ever
written—"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"—it's got everything! The novel
has wine, guillotines, revolution! It has the storming of the Bastille! It has Madame Defarge, one of the best
villains in any literary novel. At the end, it's got a little romantic switcheroo: One man stands in the place of
another and dies for the woman he loves.
— Amy Poehler
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