A Tale of Two Cities - (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Charles Dickens (Hardcover)

Name: A Tale of Two Cities - (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Charles Dickens (Hardcover)
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
About the Author: Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7).
544 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
Series Name: Penguin Clothbound Classics

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About the Book

Now available in a gorgeous clothbound edition, this classic saga of the French Revolution is sure to enthrall today's readers.

Book Synopsis

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

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"No writer of the age was more beloved than Dickens." --Tina Jordan, The New York Times

"[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 Everyman's Library introduction by Simon Schama

About the Author

Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Richard Maxwell teaches in the Comparative Literature & English departments at Yale.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.7 Inches (W) x 1.7 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.45 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 544

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Sub-Genre: Classics

Series Title: Penguin Clothbound Classics

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Format: Hardcover

Author: Charles Dickens

Language: English

Street Date: April 26, 2011

TCIN: 13342159

UPC: 9780141196909

Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-7972

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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