A Tale of Two Cities
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good, but torned and chipped, DJ
- Seller
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Port Dover, Ontario, Canada
Item Price
A$32.06A$28.86
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Collins, 1949. 1st Edition thus. Hardcover. Good in Good, but torned and chipped, DJ. Keir, Harry. Grey hardcover cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. FIRST EDITION THUS. The top and bottom of the spine show shelf wear and the bottom front fold of the spine is frayed. Illustrated throughout. The DJ has several chips and tears. 415 pages.
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Synopsis
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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On Dec 1 2018, a reader said:
I love this book have read it multiple times and will read again
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Details
- Bookseller
- Olmstead Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6805
- Title
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- Keir, Harry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good, but torned and chipped, DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition thus
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1949
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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