| A Tale of Two Cities Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author), Busch, Frederick (Introduction by), Wilson, A. N. (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451530578 ISBN-13: 9780451530578 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $6.26 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound Published: February 2007 Annotation: 150TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION With dramatic eloquence, this story of the French Revolution brings to life a time of terror and treason, and a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007275581 |
| Lexile Measure: 790 |
| Series: Signet Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 4.3" W x 6.74" (0.43 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 719 Reading Level: 9.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 27.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times... The storming of the Bastille...the death carts with their doomed human cargo...the swift drop of the guillotine blade--this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities. With dramatic eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime. With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his novel of unforgettable scenes with some memorable characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, knitting her patterns of death; the gentle Lucie Manette, unswerving in her devotion to her broken father; Charles Darnay, the lover with a secret past; and dissolute Sydney Carton, whose unlikely heroism gives his life meaning. With an Introduction by Frederick Busch and an Afterword by A. N. Wilson |