Adam Henderson
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Every year on his birthday, Ned is cursed with visions of horrors committed by a savage figure he calls Mr. X. A dreadful premonition brings him home to find his mother on her deathbed. She reveals the never-before-disclosed name of his father and warns him of grave danger as he explores his dark past and astonishing legacy of his kin.
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A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author's novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores...