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Red Classics Tale of Two Cities
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Red Classics Tale of Two Cities Mass market paperbound - 2007

by Charles Dickens

About this book

Written by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel that follows Manette, a French doctor imprisoned for 18 long years in Paris’s Bastille. Following his release, he goes to live in London with his daughter Lucie, who had never met him and believed him to be dead. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, A Tale of Two Cities is a fictitious story that falls both into the historical and adventure genres. The famous book is one of the bestselling novels of all time, both for the atmosphere that Dickens’ creates and the tension he weaves. Full of love and brutality, A Tale of Two Cities exposes the highs and lows of humanity. 

First Edition Identification

A Tale of Two Cities was first published in 31 weekly installments in a journal called All the Year Round between April and November of 1859, and published in a book form in the same year. The publisher of the first book edition was Chapman and Hall, based in London. Original illustrations were done by H. K. Browne on 16 plates inserted into the book. The first edition is a hardcover, octavo book with maroon cloth covers. However, some first editions have had the binding refurbished. A key way to identify first editions of A Tale of Two Cities is that page 213 is misnumbered as “113.” Additionally, affectionately is misspelled as “affetcionately” on line 12, page 134. Finally, the signature “b” is present on the list of plate illustrations.

Details

  • Title Red Classics Tale of Two Cities
  • Author Charles Dickens
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group
  • Date 2007
  • ISBN 9780141031743 / 0141031743
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823

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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)

by Dickens, Charles

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