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A Tale of Two Cities: Introduction by Simon Schama
Hardcover
Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0679420738
ISBN13: 9780679420736
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Feb 23 1993
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679420736
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Feb 23 1993
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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.
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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