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'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' After finishing A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens said 'it has greatly moved and excited me in the doing'. One of his most haunt...
More >'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' After finishing A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens said 'it has greatly moved and excited me in the doing'. One of his most haunting novels, it has, since its first serial publication in 1859, continued to exert a grip on the popular imagination. Set during the French revolution in a lethal, vengeful Paris and a leafy, tranquil London, the two cities of the title are only a part of the novel's stark dichotomies, which are continued as Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay are drawn towards their separate destinies - their lives touched by the same woman.
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| File Size | 2.90 MB |
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| Publisher | Penguin
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| Publish Date | 02/11/2003 |
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| Print Pages | 528 |
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| Print ISBN | 0140437304 |
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| eBook ISBN | 078653379X |
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| eBook List Price | $ 6.95 |
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Comparing it to Carlyle's French Revolution and Hugo's Les Misérables, Maxwell argues that A Tale of Two Cities ‘stands as Dickens's most memorable effort to see a world in a very small space; a work short by its nature … yet curiously at its ease among giants.' -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent to work in London backing warehou...
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Richard Maxwell
Richard Maxwell brings the skills he developed in his twenty-five-year career as a screen and television writer-producer to FirstVoice's clients. In addition to his produced feature films--The Challenge, The Serpent and the Rainbow, and Shadow of China--he has worked as a script...
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