A Tale of Two Cities-All three books in one.
by Charles Dickens
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
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AN ATTRACTIVE TIGHT CLEAN AND UNMARKED COPY- WITH READING RIBBON- Dark greenish textured hardback with intricate gilt-colored decoration around the edges of the front board-" " A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens' greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle's great work - The French Revolution.' The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, if superficial in historical understanding. The complex plot involves Sydney Carton's sacrifice of his own life on behalf of his friends Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette. While political events drive the story, Dickens takes a decidedly antipolitical tone, lambasting both aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess--the latter memorably caricatured in Madame Defarge, who knits beside the guillotine. The book is perhaps best known for its opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," and for Carton's last speech, in which he says of his replacing Darnay in a prison cell, "It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. These well-known and loved lines begin Dickens's most exciting novel, set during the bloodiest moments of the French Revolution. When former aristocrat Charles Darnay learns that an old family servant needs his help, he abandons his safe haven in England and returns to Paris. But once there, the Revolutionary authorities arrest him not for anything he has done, but for his rich family's crimes. Also in danger: his wife, Lucie, their young daughter, and her aged father, who have followed him across the Channel."-Moderate edge wear.
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- Title
- A Tale of Two Cities-All three books in one.
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- International Collectors Library
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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