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Charles Dickens, James Gibson, Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities (Hardcover, 1894, Houghton, Mifflin and Company)

Hardcover, 373 pages

English language

Published Nov. 1, 1894 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

OCLC Number:
6965985

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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, he casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with unforgettable characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken father ; the heroic Sydney Carton, who gives his life for the love of a girl who would never be his.

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