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Product: A Tale of Two Cities
Description: Novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyle's history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the novel offers more drama than accuracy. The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, if superficial in historical understanding. The complex plot involves Sydney Carton's sacrifice of his own life on behalf of his friends Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette. While political events drive the story, Dickens takes a decidedly antipolitical tone, lambasting both aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess--the latter memorably caricatured in Madame Defarge, who knits beside the guillotine. The book is perhaps best known for its opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," and for Carton's last speech, in which he says of his replacing Darnay in a prison cell, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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Product: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)
Description: It is 1775, and Mr. Jarvis Lorry is traveling to Dover to meet Lucie Manette. He tells her that she is not an orphan as she had been told from a young age. He now says that he will travel with her to Paris to meet her father, who has recently been released from the Bastille. Doctor Manette is housed in the Defarges' wine-shop and has lost his reason, but he starts to regain it when he meets his daughter and is transported back to London.
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Product: A Tale of Two Cities
Description: Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Julian Rhind-Tutt, star of Green Wing, also known for his roles in The Madness of King George, and Tomb Raider. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Richard Maxwell.

After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Dr Manette, is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.
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Product: A Tale Of Two Cities
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Product: Episode 1
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Product: A Tale of Two Cities (AmazonClassics Edition)
Description: Charles Darnay is a French noble falsely accused of treason. Sydney Carton is a self-loathing junior barrister enlisted to defend him. Between them is a shared love for the daughter of a former Bastille prisoner. Soon, their interlocking fates will be decided, as the French Revolution is ignited and the Reign of Terror begins.

Charles Dickens’s belief in renaissance is borne out in this epic novel—as cities are overthrown and transformed, as cynics become selfless heroes, and as a “recall to life” becomes not only possible but necessary, for the individual and for society.

AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.
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Product: A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
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Product: A Tale of Two Cities
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Product: Tale of Two Cities (Norton Critical Editions)
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
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Product: The Charles Dickens Collection: Deluxe 5-Volume Box Set Edition (Arcturus Collector's Classics)
Brand: Arcturus Editions
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Product: A Tale of Two Cities (Flame Tree Collectable Classics)
Brand: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
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Product: A Tale of Two Cities (Seasons Edition -- Winter)
Brand: Thomas Nelson
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Product: A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)
Brand: Dover Publications
Color: Black
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Product: A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations: Two Novels (Oprah's Book Club)
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Product: Major Works of Charles Dickens (Great Expectations / Hard Times / Oliver Twist / A Christmas Carol / Bleak House / A Tale of Two Cities) (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Brand: Penguin Classics
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Product: British Classics. A Tale of Two Cities
Brand: Ino Editions
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