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A Tale of Two Cities: Illustrated
Contributor(s): Phiz (Illustrator), Dickens, Charles (Author)

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 ISBN: 1541339479     ISBN-13: 9781541339477
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $9.07  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: December 2016
* Out of Print *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Historical - General
Lexile Measure: 1130
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.75 lbs) 250 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 135387
Reading Level: 4.6   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 2.0
 
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..." 'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -- the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine ' After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of 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 roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine. This edition uses the text as it appeared in its serial publication in 1859 to convey the full scope of Dickens's vision, and includes the original illustrations by H. K. Browne ('Phiz').
 
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