A tale of two cities
By: by Charles Dickens ; with an introduction by Simon Schama.
Edition: 1st Vintage classics ed.
Series: Vintage classics
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1990-06
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780679729655
Subjects: France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction
Description: The most famous and possibly the most popular of Dickens's novels, A Tale of Two Cities shows a master of dramatic narrative extracting gold from the ore of history. If the bloody tableau of the French Revolution were not in itself sufficient for a dozen novels, Dickens added to it a professional resurrectionist, an authentic ogress, and an antihero as convincingly flawed as any in modern literature. Here, too, are all of Dickens's recurring themes -- imprisonment, injustice, and cataclysmic violence, resurrection and the renunciation that makes renewal possible.
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