Tale of Two Cities (Classics S.) - Hardcover

Charles Dickens.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0173110010 ISBN 13: 9780173110010

Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1955

Synopsis

You’re reading A Tale of Two Cities for the first time—or perhaps for the third or fourth time. But what are gaols, bumpers, tocsins, farmer-generals, and the Court of King’s Bench? Where are Shooter’s Hill, Temple Bar, and La Force, and who on earth was Mrs. Southcott? And did all those starving French people have baguettes in mind when they wanted bread?

The Reader’s Companion is not a literary analysis of Dickens’s novel, but a source of information for the new reader, the longterm fan, and the student, about things, people, places, and events mentioned in the text. In 780 notes to the unabridged novel, historical author Susanne Alleyn explains Dickens’s references to things and places familiar to 19th-century Londoners, illustrates his many literary allusions and Victorian expressions, and provides an in-depth, factual background to his gripping but often misleading depiction of the French Revolution—a period that owes much of its distorted image today to the popularity of A Tale of Two Cities itself.

“I was probably in college the last time I read A Tale of Two Cities, and I enjoyed it very much. This time, reading Alleyn’s wonderful annotated edition full of helpful comments and clarifications, I found the experience doubly enjoyable.” (Brian Strayer, Ph.D., Department of History, Andrews University)

About this title

Review:

"Charles Dickens's classic of the French Revolution is expertly dramatized by Simon Vance." ---AudioFile

""Charles Dickens's classic of the French Revolution is expertly dramatized by Simon Vance."" ---AudioFile

Book Description:

One of Dickens's most exciting books, set against the backdrop of the French revolution

About this edition

• Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd
• Publication date: 1955
• ISBN 10: 0173110010
• ISBN 13: 9780173110010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348