A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution (Ignatius Critical Editions) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles; Aeschliman, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1586174428 ISBN 13: 9781586174422

Publisher: Ignatius Press, 2012

Synopsis

In this exciting novel set during the French Revolution, Charles Dickens expresses sympathy for the downtrodden poor and their outrage at the self-indulgent aristocracy. But Dickens is no friend of the vengeful mob that storms the Bastille and cheers the guillotine. As with all of his stories, his passion is for the unforgettable and unrepeatable individuals he creates. The sorrows of the suffering masses, their demands for justice, and the indiscriminate fury they unleash take flesh in Madame Defarge, while the self-sacrifice that is the truest means of atonement and rebirth manifests in the unlikely hero Sydney Carton. In A Tale of Two Cities, humanity does not show its best side in the mean streets of Paris or even London, but in the intimate circle of loyal friends that gathers around the honorable Doctor Manette and his lovely daughter, Lucie.

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About the Author

Michael D. Aeschliman is Professor of Education at Boston University, Professor of English at the University of Italian Switzerland, and author of The Restitution of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism (1983, 1998). A widely published scholar and literary critic, he edited in 1987 a new edition of Malcolm Muggeridge's 1934 satirical-documentary novel, Winter in Moscow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1586174428
• ISBN 13: 9781586174422
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 514