A tale of two cities
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Presented here in a beautiful hardcover edition, A Tale of Two Cities is a classic and powerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the French Revolution, illuminated by Charles Dickens’s lively comedy.Lucie Manette had been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris’s most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the fortunes of the Manette family becomes inextricably intertwined with those of two men, the heroic aristocrat Darnay, and the dissolute lawyer, Carton. Their story, which encompasses violence, revenge, love and redemption, is grippingly played out against the backdrop of the terrifying brutality of the French Revolution.A Tale of Two Cities begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and drama, and it ends in the Paris of the French Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Charles Dickens’s most exciting books—a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events.This edition includes an introduction by Simon Schama in addition to sixteen Phiz illustrations.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
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Dickens, Charles Author
Dickens, Charles Author
Henderson, Adam Narrator
Maxwell, Richard,1948-2010
Prebble, Simon Narrator
Dickens, Charles Author
Henderson, Adam Narrator
Maxwell, Richard,1948-2010
Prebble, Simon Narrator
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9780141439600
9780307950505
9781483090412
9781620116609
9780307950505
9781483090412
9781620116609
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Classic Literature
Executions and executioners -- Fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
Fiction
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction
French fiction -- England -- London
Historical Fiction
Literature
London (England) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
Lookalikes -- Fiction
Paris (France) -- History -- 1789-1799 -- Fiction
Executions and executioners -- Fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
Fiction
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction
French fiction -- England -- London
Historical Fiction
Literature
London (England) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
Lookalikes -- Fiction
Paris (France) -- History -- 1789-1799 -- Fiction
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