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A Tale of Two Cities

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Frederick Busch
Afterword by A.N. Wilson

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Frederick Busch
Afterword by A.N. Wilson

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Frederick Busch
Afterword by A.N. Wilson

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Frederick Busch
Afterword by A.N. Wilson

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    About A Tale of Two Cities

    The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens’s famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times…

    The storming of the Bastille…the death carts with their doomed human cargo…the swift drop of the guillotine blade—this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with some memorable characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken father; Charles Darnay, the lover with a secret past; and dissolute Sydney Carton, whose unlikely heroism gives his life meaning.

    With an Introduction by Frederick Busch
    and an Afterword by A. N. Wilson

    About A Tale of Two Cities

    The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens’s famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times…

    The storming of the Bastille…the death carts with their doomed human cargo…the swift drop of the guillotine blade—this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with some memorable characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken father; Charles Darnay, the lover with a secret past; and dissolute Sydney Carton, whose unlikely heroism gives his life meaning.

    With an Introduction by Frederick Busch
    and an Afterword by A. N. Wilson

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    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

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    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction | Military Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $6.95
    Published by Signet
    Feb 06, 2007 | 416 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451530578

    Category: Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction | Military Fiction

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Signet
    Feb 06, 2007 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9781101043677
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    Praise

    “[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.”—Simon Schama

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