A Tale of Two Cities

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

Author: Charles Dickens
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 02/06/2007
Series: Signet Classics
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 6.74h x 4.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780451530578
200th Anniversary Edition

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.7
Point Value: 27
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 719 / Tale of Two Cities (Unabridged)