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John McLenan

[Dr. Manette released from his cell in the Bastille by an angel carrying keys]

1859

Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Book I, ch. 1

Harper's Weekly 3 (7 May 1859): 289.

[This page begins the first installment of the novel, which All the Year Round published in the U.K. on 30 April 1859 — exactly a week earlier than Harper's.]

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