A Tale of Two Cities
By: Charles Dickens.
Edition: 1996 Modern Library ed. (3)
Publisher: The Modern Library
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780679602088
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: French -- England -- London -- Fiction.; Executions and executioners -- Fiction.; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.; Lookalikes -- Fiction.; Paris (France) -- History -- 1789-1799 -- Fiction.; London (England) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of 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 many of his enduring themes--imprisonment, injustice, and social anarchy, resurrection and the renunciation that fosters renewal. 

"Dickens's French Revolution is probably more like the French Revolution than Carlyle's," said G. K. Chesterton. "In dignity and eloquence A Tale of Two Cities almost stands alone among the books by Dickens."
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Notes: US/CAN