num_pages: 918
description: FULL LEATHER BOARDS WITH RAISED SPINE BANDS. ALL EDGES GILT. GILT LETTERING AND DECORATION. RIBBON PAGE MARKER. 918 PAGES. BLUE PICTORIAL END PAPERS ON NAVY LEATHER BOARDS. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair..." Beginning and ending with some of English literature's most famous lines, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities thrives on tension and conflict, all set against a bloody backdrop of the French Revolution. n unforgettable tale of fate and a chance encounter between two strangers that radically and arbitrarily alters the lives of everyone around them. Great Expectations begins on Christmas Eve, 1812, when a 7-year-old orphan named Pip has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes, and it ends with a grown-up Pip in a familiar garden in the winter of 1840. Over the course of nearly three decades, we follow as a series of events—a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor—seem to conspire to change Pip's life forever.
language: English
title: Great Expectations + A Tale of Two Cities
titlecomplete: Great Expectations + A Tale of Two Cities
genres: Historical, Literature, British Literature, Classics, School, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 17109
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Tally Hall Press