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A Tale of Two Cities
Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author), Schama, Simon (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 0679729658     ISBN-13: 9780679729655
Publisher: Vintage
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 1990
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Annotation: "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...."
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.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | War & Military
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 90012136
Lexile Measure: 710(Not Available)
Series: Vintage Classics
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8" L (0.90 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1800-1850
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Cultural Region - French
Features: Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 719
Reading Level: 9.7   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 27.0
 
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Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most popular and dramatic stories.

It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickens's most exciting books--a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events. Famous for its vivid characters, including the courageous French nobleman Charles Darnay, the vengeful revolutionary Madame Defarge, and cynical Englishman Sydney Carton, who redeems his ill-spent life in a climactic moment at the guillotine ("It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done"), the novel is also a powerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution, illuminated by Dickens's lively comedy.

With an Introduction by Simon Schama

 
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