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A Tale of Two Cities (Large Print Edition)

A Tale of Two Cities (Large Print Edition)

Dickens, Charles
Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

Series: Clearview Editions

Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1608888134
ISBN13: 9781608888139
Publisher: Clearview Editions
Published: Aug 22 2026
Pages: 914
Weight: 3.93
Height: 1.88 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities opens in 1775, when an English bank messenger carries the cryptic message Recalled to Life. Jarvis Lorry travels to Paris with Lucie Manette, whose father, Doctor Alexandre Manette, has emerged after eighteen years of imprisonment in the Bastille. Their reunion begins a story that moves between London and Paris and between private loyalty and public upheaval. The doctor's recovery, Lucie's steady affection, and the shadows left by confinement shape the lives of the people around them.

In London, Charles Darnay is tried for treason and acquitted after the striking resemblance between him and the barrister Sydney Carton complicates the evidence. Darnay and Carton both become attached to Lucie, but their paths diverge. Darnay seeks an honorable life apart from the French aristocratic family into which he was born. Carton, brilliant and self-despising, believes he has wasted his abilities. Their resemblance and their different choices become central to the novel's design.

Across the Channel, resentment grows under the cruelty and indifference of the old regime. In Saint Antoine, Ernest and Thérèse Defarge keep a wine shop that is also a meeting place for revolutionaries. Madame Defarge records names in her knitting and carries a memory of violence committed against her family. Dickens follows the gathering force of revolution from whispered plans and crowded streets to the fall of the Bastille, the prisons of the new Republic, and the Terror's accelerating judgments.

When Darnay returns to France to help a former servant, he is arrested as an emigrant and drawn into danger created by his ancestry. Doctor Manette's former imprisonment gives him influence, yet a document from his own past becomes evidence against the man his daughter loves. The final movement brings the London and Paris plots together through testimony, sacrifice, disguise, and a race against the guillotine. Carton's earlier promise to Lucie gains its full meaning as he confronts what a life may become through one decisive act.

The novel is organized as Book the First-Recalled to Life, Book the Second-the Golden Thread, and Book the Third-the Track of a Storm. Its forty-five chapters alternate intimate scenes with public spectacle: courtrooms, banks, roads, taverns, prisons, crowds, and family rooms. Repeated images of resurrection, echoes, footsteps, shadows, doubles, and gathering storms connect the personal histories to the larger historical movement. Dickens combines suspense, social observation, melodrama, irony, and tightly prepared reversals.

This Clearview Editions volume preserves the complete three-book structure, all forty-five chapters, and sixteen historical illustrations and captions. The pictures mark key scenes and characters while allowing the narrative's long arcs to remain visible across the volume. A source and edition note identifies Project Gutenberg Ebook No. 98. Dickens's novel was first published in 1859.

The 7 by 10 inch casebound format uses 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next type with 27-point line spacing. Ragged-right text and line endings without automatic word division give dialogue, descriptive passages, and chapter openings a spacious setting. Contents and clear chapter openings support reading one chapter at a time and returning to the boundaries between the three books. This large-print edition is intended for sustained reading while retaining Dickens's language, structure, illustrations, and carefully linked London-and-Paris design.

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