Part of the Penguin's Clothbound Classics Collection range.
It was the best of times,it was the worst of times,it was the age of wisdom,it was the age of foolishness,it was the epoch of belief,it was the epoch of incredulity,it was the season of Light,it was the season of Darkness,it was the spring of hope,it was the winter of despair,we had everything before us,we had nothing before us,we were all going direct to Heaven,we were all going direct the other way...
After eighteen 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.Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith,these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Credited by some with inventing the detective novel and one of the most popular novelists of his dayCharles Dickensremains one of the best-loved novelists in the English language,whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books,includingOliver Twist,Great Expectations,A Tale of Two Cities,David CopperfieldandThe Pickwick Papers,have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millions.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141196909Number of pages: 544Weight: 660 gDimensions: 200 x 138 x 44 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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