A tale of two cities
By: Charles Dickens ; with an introduction by Simon Schama and sixteen illustrations by Phiz.
Contributors: Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, illus.
Edition: Ninth printing
Series: Everyman's library
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780679420736
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: French -- England -- London -- Fiction.; Executions and executioners -- Fiction.; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.; Lookalikes -- Fiction.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction.; Paris (France) -- History -- 1789-1799 -- Fiction.; London (England) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A Tale of Two Cities begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and drama, and it ends in the Paris of the French Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Charles Dickens’s most exciting books– a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events.

Famous for the character of Sydney Carton, who sacrifices himself upon the guillotine–“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done”–the novel is also a powerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution, and is illuminated by Dickens’s lively comedy.

This edition reprints the original Everyman introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes sixteen illustrations by Phiz.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xvii).