'It was the best of times,it was the worst of times...'Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy,Dickens's gripping novel depicts the lives of two very different men,Charles Darnay,an exiled French aristocrat,and Sydney Carton,a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer,as they become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette,the daughter of a political prisoner. From the tranquil roads of London,they are drawn against their will to the vengeful,bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror,and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.Edited with an Introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141439600Number of pages: 544Weight: 372 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 23 mm
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"(A Tale of Two Cities) has the best of Dickens and the worst of Dickens: a dark,driven opening,and a celestial but melodramatic ending; a terrifyingly demonic villainess and (even by Dickens'standards) an impossibly angelic heroine. Though its version of the French Revolution is brutally simplified,its engagement with the immense moral themes of rebirth and terror,justice,and sacrifice gets right to the heart of the matter...For every reader in the past hundred and forty years and for hundreds to come,it is an unforgettable ride."-from the Introduction by Simon Schama
Charles Dickens
A towering figure in the development of the novel,Charles Dickens was a British writer responsible for some of the best-loved works in the English language,including Oliver Twist,David Copperfield,A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations.
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