A Tale of Two Cities (Artisan Edition) (Harper Curated Classics: Artisan Editions) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

 
9781400341863: A Tale of Two Cities (Artisan Edition) (Harper Curated Classics: Artisan Editions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1400341868 ISBN 13: 9781400341863
Verlag: Harper Curated Classics, 2024

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The beloved historical novel is now available in an affordable softcover edition featuring a striking cover and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for lovers of classic fiction, readers in high-school and college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists.

The A Tale of Two Cities softcover edition:

  • Presents Charles Dickens's famed historical novel set during the French Revolution, regarded by many literary scholars as one of the bestselling novels of all time; its 1859 publication helped secure Dickens's place in literature's pantheon of great writers.
  • Explores such important themes as violence, duality, resurrection, revolution, and the significance of women's roles in social change.
  • Is ideal for Dickens aficionados, fans of literary fiction and classic literature, and people who love both the book and the cinematic adaptations it inspired.

Whether you're buying this as a gift or as a self-purchase, this remarkable edition features:

  • Beautiful softcover
  • Distinctive decorative interior pages featuring pull quotes distributed throughout
  • Part of a 4-volume collection including Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Dr. Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter Lucie in London. However, there he meets two very different men, connected through their love for Lucie Manette. Drawn against their will to Paris at the height of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, they all soon fall under the lethal, far-reaching shadow of "La Guillotine."

An affordable edition ideal for your favorite classic fiction lover, literature student, or fan of annual reading challenges.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the Navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823, but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines, and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. He began Oliver Twist in 1837, followed by Nicholas Nickleby (1838) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41). A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843, David Copperfield in 1850. In later works, such as Bleak House (1853) and Little Dorrit (1857), Dickens's social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage. He published Hard Times in 1854, A Tale of Two Cities in 1859, and Great Expectations in 1860. His last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was never completed and he died on June 9, 1870.

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Verlag
Harper Curated Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1400341868
ISBN 13 
9781400341863
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
512
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