A tale of two Cities
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Hertfordshire
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781573353946
Copyright date: 1993
Description: A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens’ greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle’s great work – The French Revolution – and also on his own observations and investigations during numerous visits to Paris.

‘The best story I have written’ was Dickens’ own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities, and the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author’s unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering, self-sacrifice, and redemption.
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