A Tale of Two Cities
By: Charles Dickens ; with an introduction by Frederick Busch and a new afterword by A.N. Wilson
Edition: 150th Anniversary ed.; First Signet Classics Printing (Wilson Afterword) (7)
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: 2007-02
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780451530578
Copyright date: 2007
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: The storming of the Bastille…the death carts with their doomed human cargo…the swift drop of the guillotine blade—this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with some memorable characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken father; and the heroic Sydney Carton who gives his life for the woman who will never be his.
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Notes: Includes updated editorial material, revised Dickens Chronology and new appendix.
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