A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141439602 ISBN 13: 9780141439600

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'

Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy, Dickens's gripping novel depicts the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, as they become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette, the daughter of a political prisoner. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

Edited with an Introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell

About this title

Review:

"[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."-from the Introduction by Simon Schama

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0141439602
• ISBN 13: 9780141439600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Maxwell Richard