A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 0140620788
- ISBN 13
- 9780140620788
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About This Item
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
Those are the famous lines of Dickens's stirring tale of two cities, London and Paris, at the time of the French Revolution. Suspense gathers from the opening scene, the dramatic coach journey to Dover and the rescue of Dr. Manette from incarceration in the Bastille. At the centre of the novel are the figures of Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, both men in love with the doctor's beautiful daughter Lucie, linked together by fate and by the engulfing terrors of revolution.
A Tale of Two Cities was written at a time of crisis in Dickens's life. It is a wonderful love story and, aside from The Pickwick Papers, the most popular of all Dickens's novels.
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fay Tsapoga (GR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7
- Title
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140620788
- ISBN 13
- 9780140620788
- Publisher
- Penguin Popular Classicss
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 368