A Tale of Two Cities
Contributors: Gillen D'Arcy Wood (Introduction)
Edition: 15th printing
Series: Barnes & Noble Classics Series
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9781593081386
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Classics; Literary; Fiction / Classics; LITERATURE - LIT CLASSICS TRD PB
Description: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras—the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that tumultuous period. At the center is the novel’s hero, Sydney Carton, a lazy, alcoholic attorney who, inspired by a woman, makes the supreme sacrifice on the bloodstained streets of Paris. One of Dickens’s most exciting novels, A Tale of Two Cities is a stirring classic of love, revenge, and resurrection.

Gillen D’Arcy Wood received his Ph.D in English from Columbia University in 2000 and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760–1860.
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