A Tale of Two Cities
The French Revolution comes to life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times. A Tale of Two Cities vividly captures the storming of the Bastille, the death carts, and the guillotine blade. Dickens brings to life a time of terror and treason, with memorable characters like Madame Defarge, Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton. Introduction by Frederick Busch and Afterword by A. N. Wilson.
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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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Brand: Signet Classics
Publisher Date: 02/06/2007
Author: Charles Dickens
Dimensions: 6.75 x 4.19
UPC: 9780451530578
Pages: 416
