A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens.
By: Dickens, Charles
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Contributor(s): Hunt, Gillian [illustrator].
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BookPlace of publication: OxfordPublisher: Macmillan HeinemannDate of publication: 2005Description: 63 pages : illustrated, 19 cm.ISBN: 978-1-4050-7224.Subject(s): France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- FictionDDC classification: 823.8 D554t 2005 Summary: The most famous and possibly the most popular of Dickens' 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 Dickens' recurring themes - imprisonment, injustice, and cataclysmic violence, resurrection and the renunciation that makes renewal possible.
- From the back cover
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The most famous and possibly the most popular of Dickens' 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 Dickens' recurring themes - imprisonment, injustice, and cataclysmic violence, resurrection and the renunciation that makes renewal possible.
- From the back cover
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