A Tale of Two Cities
Contributors: Norman Page (Editor)
Edition: reprint
Publisher: Everyman
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780460874519
Copyright date: 1994
Description: The classic English evocation of the French Revolution

Recently 'recalled to life' after years abandoned in the Bastille, Dr Manette is psychologically scarred by his long confinement and isolation, returning compulsively from time to time to the shoemaker's work that has occupied him in his cell. Perhaps only his daughter Lucie can rescue him from numb despair.

In this fast-moving story of redemption, family loyalty and heroic self-sacrifice set in the shadow of the guillotine, Dickens graphically reveals both the heartless decadence of the ancien régime and the violence unleashed by the Terror. As Charles Darnay and the debauched Sydney Carton struggle to win Lucie's heart, we see all of France engulfed in the poisonous politics of hatred.

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