An edition of A Tale of Two Cities (1800)

A tale of two cities

1st Vintage classics ed.
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An edition of A Tale of Two Cities (1800)

A tale of two cities

1st Vintage classics ed.
  • 3.76 ·
  • 151 Ratings
  • 827 Want to read
  • 53 Currently reading
  • 192 Have read

The most famous and possibly the most popular of Dickens's novels, A Tale of Two Cities shows a master of dramatic narrative extracting gold from the ore of history. If the bloody tableau of the French Revolution were not in itself sufficient for a dozen novels, Dickens added to it a professional resurrectionist, an authentic ogress, and an antihero as convincingly flawed as any in modern literature. Here, too, are all of Dickens's recurring themes -- imprisonment, injustice, and cataclysmic violence, resurrection and the renunciation that makes renewal possible.
--back cover

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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
380

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Edition Notes

Series
Vintage classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4571.A2 S56 1990, PR4571.A2S56 1990

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xiv, 380 p. ;
Number of pages
380

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1859004M
ISBN 10
0679729658
ISBN 13
9780679729655
LCCN
90012136
OCLC/WorldCat
21196349
Library Thing
17728
Goodreads
323612

Work Description

A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. In the Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction, critic Don D'Ammassa argues that it is an adventure novel because the protagonists are in constant danger of being imprisoned or killed.

As Dickens's best-known work of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities is said to be one of the best-selling novels of all time. In 2003, the novel was ranked 63rd on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The novel has been adapted for film, television, radio, and the stage, and has continued to influence popular culture.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
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