A Tale Of Two Cities
Author(s): Charles Dickens
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There 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.
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Charles Dickens (1812-70) was a political reporter and journalist whose popularity was established by the phenomenally successful Pickwick Papers (1836-7). His novels captured and held the public imagination over a period of more than thirty years. Richard Maxwell teaches in the Comparative Literature & English departments at Yale.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.665
- : 01 April 2011
- : 204mm X 138mm X 47mm
- : 01 April 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Charles Dickens
- : Hardback
- : en
- : 823.8
- : 489
- : FC
- : Yes - b&w