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A Tale of Two Cities Paperback - 1993
by Charles Dickens; Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) (Illustrator); Introduction by Peter Merchant
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Written by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel that follows Manette, a French doctor imprisoned for 18 long years in Paris’s Bastille. Following his release, he goes to live in London with his daughter Lucie, who had never met him and believed him to be dead. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, A Tale of Two Cities is a fictitious story that falls both into the historical and adventure genres. The famous book is one of the bestselling novels of all time, both for the atmosphere that Dickens’ creates and the tension he weaves. Full of love and brutality, A Tale of Two Cities exposes the highs and lows of humanity.
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A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author's novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes - imprisonment, injustice, and social anarchy, resurrection and the renunciation that fosters renewal.
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A Tale of Two Cities was first published in 31 weekly installments in a journal called All the Year Round between April and November of 1859, and published in a book form in the same year. The publisher of the first book edition was Chapman and Hall, based in London. Original illustrations were done by H. K. Browne on 16 plates inserted into the book. The first edition is a hardcover, octavo book with maroon cloth covers. However, some first editions have had the binding refurbished. A key way to identify first editions of A Tale of Two Cities is that page 213 is misnumbered as “113.” Additionally, affectionately is misspelled as “affetcionately” on line 12, page 134. Finally, the signature “b” is present on the list of plate illustrations.
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- Title A Tale of Two Cities
- Author Charles Dickens; Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) (Illustrator); Introduction by Peter Merchant
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wordsworth Editions, Ware, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- Publication date 1993-05-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9781853260391 / 1853260398
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.8 in (19.56 x 12.45 x 2.03 cm)
- Age range 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 710
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- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: French
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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