A Tale of Two Cities - (Everyman's Library Classics) by Charles Dickens (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Lucie Manette had been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes's fortunes become inextricably intertwined with those of two men, the heroic aristocrat Darnay, and the dissolute lawyer, Carton. Their story, which encompasses violence, revenge, love and redemption, is grippingly played out against the backdrop of the terrifying brutality of the French Revolution. <p/><i>A Tale of Two Cities</i> begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and drama, and it ends in the Paris of the French Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Charles Dickens's most exciting books- a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events. <p/>Famous for the character of Sydney Carton, who sacrifices himself upon the guillotine-"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done"-the novel is also a powerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution, and is illuminated by Dickens's lively comedy. <p/>This edition reprints the original Everyman introduction by G. K. Chesterton and includes sixteen illustrations by Phiz. <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>A Tale Of Two Cities ends in the Paris of the French Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature, and it begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and drama.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[<i>A Tale of Two Cities</i>] has the best of Dickens and the worst of Dickens: a dark, driven opening, and a celestial but melodramatic ending; a terrifyingly demonic villainess and (even by Dickens' standards) an impossibly angelic heroine. Though its version of the French Revolution is brutally simplified, its engagement with the immense moral themes of rebirth and terror, justice, and sacrifice gets right to the heart of the matter . . . For every reader in the past hundred and forty years and for hundreds to come, it is an unforgettable ride."-from the Introduction by Simon Schama<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 warehouse, where his job was to paste labels on bottles for six shillings a week. His father John Dickens, was a warmhearted but improvident man. When he was condemned the Marshela Prison for unpaid debts, he unwisely agreed that Charles should stay in lodgings and continue working while the rest of the family joined him in jail. This three-month separation caused Charles much pain; his experiences as a child alone in a huge city-cold, isolated with barely enough to eat-haunted him for the rest of his life. <p/>When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter and finally an author. With <i>Pickwick Papers </i>(1836-7) he achieved immediate fame; in a few years he was easily the post popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader. <i>Oliver Twist </i>(1837), <i>Nicholas Nickleby </i>(1838-9) and <i>The Old Curiosity Shop </i>(1840-41) were huge successes. <i>Martin Chuzzlewit </i>(1843-4) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable, <i>A Christmas Carol </i>(1843), <i>Bleak House </i>(1852-3), <i>Hard Times</i> (1854) and<i> Little Dorrit</i>(1855-7)<i> </i>reveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British Society. <i>A Tale of Two Cities </i>(1859), <i>Great Expectations</i> (1860-1) and <i>Our Mutual Friend </i>(1864-5) complete his major works. <p/>Dickens's marriage to Catherine Hoggarth produced ten children but ended in separation in 1858. In that year he began a series of exhausting public readings; his health gradually declined. After putting in a full day's work at his home at Gads Hill, Kent on June 8, 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke, and he died the following day.
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